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

terrible at parties mostly, better with age

welcome the rain this year
last was a winter blight
contending with squalls off the river
ice on the wharf –

good times really in the long run
experience while not always welcome
can be a good gift after
basking in a different day

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2022, December 2022 Haiku, Haiku, Ohio River Valley Literature, poetry, psychogeography, river life, winter

Mud Bodies: December Haiku (1-3)


1. (broken haiku)

Sunday before Christmas
high water threats
gone: the cold stays


2.

Bits of snow surfing
on the bitter winter winds
on a quiet wharf


3.

These bones echo
the river’s cutting currents
this body: a mud bank

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2021, everyday words, Ohio River Valley Literature, poetry

no. 38

more secrets of aspics:

a jiggly wiggle matters. vibrations not bell like
but undulating and crass. enlightenment as a leg cramp waking in time to see a solstice moon

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