poetry

Not Inclined Towards Wish Flowers

The itinerant rooster two yards over shows no interest in Easter eggs and does not seem inclined towards bunnies of any kind.

Tend to the wish flowers and john quills before the lawn mower parts arrive with the inevitability of summer.
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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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