Category Archives: 2023

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

grace is not a flawless dance

these days measure themselves by grunts
from the sleeping shovel-headed dog.

step out of current. waltz back in later
slogging through a rebirth of mud.

grace is not a flawless dance, but
wrapping the arm ’round your flaw’s thin waist

understanding the hunger. measuring pain
on a ruler drawn by pain

grunt in time with the shovel-headed dog
relax knowing the current will find your way back

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

this grafting of the new age

anticipation sown in a man’s hip
takes root stretches out up down
this grafting of the new age
onto tired wood
while watching Fall leaves
pile up stripping bare tree limbs
the picture of a new season

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2023, aesthetic, incomplete memoir, Ohio River Valley Literature, poetry, prose, the no-scape, Working Class Literature

brief homily on aesthetic

Time and the river have washed away all of my lyricism. What remains is a poetry of growls and mud.

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