2025, Ohio River Valley Literature, poetry

each moment each rain drop

each moment, its own morning
the rain redeems nothing this time of year
it is a thousand hands of god
smacking your face
so you will finally
wake
up

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2025, Autumn, Ohio River Valley Literature, poetry, prose, Prose Poem, psychogeography, travel

Was a time, I’d bring Fall home in my rucksack

During my traveling days, I preferred to go during transitional seasons. Fall was my favorite time, and I’d go north, against the migration of birds. I’d go to the mountains, or to big sky country, where the season unfurls earlier, go in search of the dying expressions of the leaves: red, orange, yellow, the resistant evergreens. There are lessons to be learned from the last gasp of beauty before the trees stand naked, bare armed against the coming winter.  It is possible to relearn the smell of the air before the weather changes, before rain; the cold prelude kiss of an early snowfall… things forgotten in an age of digitized hyper-realities and Hallmark memories of a man-made world that never really existed. And when I arrived back to home’s warm arms, I unpacked and set it free: the bright dying, the scent of the air.

It was the only homecoming gift I could think of that mattered.

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2025, Ohio River Valley Literature, poetry

hoping for an ugly devilled egg to taste test

preparing for solace among the last
of the season swimmers, drinking coffee

she is deshelling hard boiled eggs
I debate silently about digging out camping chairs-

this is how August ends. September will have its own momentum
and hopfully, there will be coffee, a pinch of pipe tobacco

and clean wool socks against the chill.

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