RHYTHM IS THE INSTRUMENT

Ministry without religion, since 2013.

Wednesday, May 6, 2026

ENNEAGRAM 4

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The sun  must be a very  cruel and narcissistic man  to be  so beautiful, so needed— and to know it—but,  under pain  of blindness, still  p...
Tuesday, May 5, 2026

INCANTATION FOR THE LOST GENERATION

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If I could, I would go back there to kiss the creases  and clefts of your injuries— tell you  I'm sorry  you were disallowed  to put you...
Saturday, May 2, 2026

WHY WE DANCE

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Because motion  and parallax  are confusing   to the senses— the omnipotent synthesis  of centripetal gravity must couple  with inertia'...
Friday, May 1, 2026

JUST SAYING

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It's good  for the conscience  to admit  you'd been wrong— edifying  to allow, for instance,  that  spring  should have been called ...
Thursday, April 30, 2026

POEMS ARE HOLES

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Sotto voce missive  from the little distant  tackhammering woodpeckers:  often, you must drill  before the reason  will appear;  it takes p...
Wednesday, April 29, 2026

MILLENNIAL PAUSE V. THE GEN Z STARE

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By the way the sun  after 4pm  starts to shamble  through your window  like some slack Byronic hero  and ooze through the green glass  bottl...
Tuesday, April 28, 2026

OFF-THE-SHELF

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Perversely, the wrongest  thing of them all  is the reassuring tedium  of grief's routine; the TV procedural  of nullifying feeling— not...
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Dan Smart is a writer, musician, and animal caretaker from Chicago, IL. His poems have appeared in The Los Angeles Review, Spoon River Poetry Review, The Ocotillo Review, The Blue Mountain Review, Jabberwock Review, Little Stone Journal, Red Fez, and The Legendary, among others; and his first full-length collection "The Flowers of Nonchalance" was released in 2023. In addition, he has sustained the daily poetry blog "Rhythm Is The Instrument" since 2013, which presently contains nearly 4,000 original poems.
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