RHYTHM IS THE INSTRUMENT

Ministry without religion, since 2013.

Friday, October 10, 2025

WHAT IS THIS?

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If matter is  slow energy  and energy  is fast matter,  then what  are we even  talking about?  Physics tells   what it does,  but can't...
Thursday, October 9, 2025

ACCEPTANCE

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We pride ourselves often  on becoming  better people,  but perhaps it's  our dimness— our thick impenetrability—  which makes  the affir...
Wednesday, October 8, 2025

ONCE IN A LIFETIME

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Remember when  we thought that we could  simply trade labor  for a glimmer  of its opposite— for the long, happy,  untrammeled,  callus-free...
Tuesday, October 7, 2025

KILLER POEM

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A shriek  with its splinters  and spikes sanded-off,  its creases  all filled, smoothed,  and polished  with the thick  shellac of distance—...
Monday, October 6, 2025

MANKIND

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Dreamt I tried to speak  to the sparrows  like the serpent  to the woman—except, not to tempt, just  to tell them they were naked; thought I...
Friday, October 3, 2025

TRUISM

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The heart of most matters is so trivial  that it's radical— crisis is the bleeding ink  which blooms its  beautiful terrible roses  all ...
Thursday, October 2, 2025

INFINITE LOOP

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Perhaps consciousness is  recognizing the motions   as such  while you're going  through them, instead  of only after— to become, afte...
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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 April 2023 on Kallisto Gaia Press. In addition, he has sustained the daily poetry blog "Rhythm Is The Instrument" since 2013, which presently contains over 3,000 original poems.
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