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

poetica 2024

I write from an aquifer
that feeds all the buried rivers

the world digs down cuts deep so
don’t worry it will find these words

all excavations catch on eventually

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

holidays as pre-cruise check

this wading back in / a plan
forward / this fish pulled
in all directions / the kavals
half-hitched against
strong cross-currents
dragging out up under away

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