2024, Ohio River Valley Literature, poetry, the no-scape, Working Class Literature

and then, a double rainbow

the storm came up on us quickly
all wind and rain under a sepia sky

a storm some ancient creole grandmother might describe as
The devil’s wife done kicked him out da bed,

we got the boat in before the clouds wrung themselves dry.
later,

a woman walked in the rain up the wharf hugging a cello;
there was a bit of timpani thunder

Standard