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

Autumn 2023, no. 12


The storm last night is tied in my memory to imminent death.

This heat, the day after, is a waiting.

My deathbed waiting is this great wound of the world

and I am ill-prepared to bribe the tug captain
that will bear home

the spirit of my friend.

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