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

Day 38, 2023 – no. 2

The rain is long past a redemption
but there is at least a peace to it
on an unseasonably warm night.

There are no baptisms to wash away
the day no erasure. The rain whittles

like the wind whittles away
artifice years of living dryside
in this chamber of the world machine

down to what we are.

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2023, home and garden, Ohio River Valley Literature, poetry, winter

Day 29, 2023

What then, almost at an end
this month… we’ve had quite
the Fool’s Spring Prelude
our hopes lead toward
talks of the garden

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