RHYTHM IS THE INSTRUMENT

Ministry without religion, since 2013.

Monday, February 29, 2016

BUSY BODY

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So very disorienting, at first to traipse- out anonymous in the city's oppressive din— but gradually, it gets easier to percei...
Friday, February 26, 2016

EATING ALONE

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You think—something funny  must be going on, and I no longer want to kiss you. But seriously, I'm just looking for excuses—...

TIME LAPSE

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Actually—not so very long after row row rowing— our boats all the way across the wide titanic sea—in search of some freedom, wh...
Thursday, February 25, 2016

DEFERRED

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Dear William  Carlos Williams, you were  wrong—not about  much, but about early  spring  and all that reddish  purplish twi...
Wednesday, February 24, 2016

A SHOW ABOUT NOTHING

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Huge and oblong, city blocks built of fog and filthy cold vapor—stretch-  out before your body's  tottering gait, confounding t...
Tuesday, February 23, 2016

THE STEAM COMING UP OFF THE TOP OF YOUR COFFEE CUP

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It was probably the sky the made the mountains stick, and it was probably the mountains that made some clouds gather, and it was ...

NOT ANOTHER CLOUDS POEM—

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I'm not a weatherman— you're not supposed to  believe me— I just  really want you to imagine—what it  might me...
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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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