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2026, Day Book, Ohio River Valley Literature, poetry, spring, the no-scape

Observations after dark

Watching lights in the night sky
over Carter County, Kentucky
that do not move like stars.
One could be Venus, illuminated
by the moon. Others sweep
like satellites. My friend wonders
about the light through the trees.
I assume it’s a haint.

[Day book 2026 // Spring 4.1.26]

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Mick Parsons
Mick Parsons
@rivercitymick

Poet. Essayist. Fictioner. Steamboat fireman. Bit of a grackle.

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

Day 130, 2023

We are all casting lines into dirty water,
searching for a velvet fish of a kind forgotten by our grandfathers.

The morning coffee satisfies the needs of soul, for now. Cast, aye, and left
a pebble in the channel bound by the low and high water.

Speak another story with a hero made of fire.

Learning the great gob heart is not easy.
Memory is a steam driven space shuttle.

Here on the wharf watch for planets, for signs for the rain to bring news
of the latest universes that have been birthed.

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2022, Ohio River Valley Literature, poetry, Watchman's Journal

Venus is an amber encased mayfly

the moon is made of river water and ancient driftwood whittled into the color of bone

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