2024, Ohio River Valley Literature, poetry, river life

physiology of a steamboat fireman

my eyes spotlights the river the pressure gauge the clock

my feet tapping to the tune the cruise tocks

my knees the pistons moving pitman legs

my head a series of endless bilges and bleeding bulkheads

my belly the boiler forever firing

my hands mere extensions of valves of wrenches of torches

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