2024, Ohio River Valley Literature, poetry, Poetry Month 2024, spring, the no-scape

Untitled Series 1 (2024), 30

30.

store the sunset in your heart
that gigantic library
where all mysteries
are archived

sing, if you need
the dance will dance itself
wearing microfiche shoes

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2024, Ohio River Valley Literature, poetry, Poetry Month 2024, river life, spring, the no-scape, Working Class Literature

Untitled Series 1 (2024) 27-29

27.

most days Fool’s energy runs the machine

few understand the divinity in such a statement

go ask the wharf possum and salamander

28.

lie in this lingering morning
release and float

this dream current lasts
only as long as the water

29.

accompanied by yesterevening’s coffee, a fresh pipe
the morning breeze, and birdsong sing

I count the new dandelions and yellow ciniquefoil

beauty: and in the distance, sirens

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2024, Ohio River Valley Literature, poetry, Poetry Month 2024, river life, the no-scape, Working Class Literature

Untitled Series 1 (2024), 24-25

24.

relish the cool mornings as currents relent, release

find the brass and make it shine: we must find the sun

this wind, a hand that stays

25.

let go the heel

drift

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