2023, Ohio River Valley Literature, poetry, river life, the no-scape, waterfront, Working Class Literature

when at the start of summer

my wife makes deviled eggs and the mayflies have hatched on the wharf / the rain is warm like the spit of a thousand cynical angels / the wharf raccoon gets (re)caught / being between Derby and the State Fair, a couple of street folks sleep on the amphitheater steps near River Road / the only respite from rain is its unsatisfactory absence

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