RHYTHM IS THE INSTRUMENT

Ministry without religion, since 2013.

Friday, May 3, 2013

No Moral

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In the morning after cold rain–messy constellations smear the wet concrete—smashed ruddy knots of tree- buds wasted by...
Thursday, May 2, 2013

Prosaic

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Fat hungry robin out my window—I wonder darkly—are you ever bored? At first, I almost want your bobbing to seem to me ...
Wednesday, May 1, 2013

Breakfast All Day

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kissed awake by warm  dawn of May—morning smells; of coffee, lingering  coconut  mingled in the sticky  dark kitchen—shy crack o...
Tuesday, April 30, 2013

HAWTHORNE OUTGROWN

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Romance might look  like all wild  woods  at first —some fervid uncurbed, hysterical  knots of old New England, but the real bo...
Monday, April 29, 2013

Lawn Ordinance

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Endless so-forth and so- on of inestimably greenthick  spring grass—so young and teeming with brash yellow dandelions,  who dared p...
Friday, April 26, 2013

Sprinting After Heidegger

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After a fast run — panting, latent sweat beading, euphoria waxing and quickening waves of nausea that sweep  down from secret sto...
Thursday, April 25, 2013

Blues for Commuters

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Waiting in the slow  lane moaning, we watched  the bold sky clotting thickly over  with gluey cumulonimbus  clouds—arrayed in jazz...
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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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