2024, Ohio River Valley Literature, poetry

a brief essay of bones and broken cement

Crawl home through the midnight city
streets crisp as week old vegetables

just one more unedited shadow erased
in the line spacing between street lights

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2024, Ohio River Valley Literature, poetry, river life, waterfront

a round in a cruel gentle snow globe

a light snow kicks around the wharf
the currrent of traffic sounds cuts the cold air
my tobacco pipe, the only natural light
againt cityscape’s purple-highlit darkness

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2024, Ohio River Valley Literature, poetry

a broken tanka from “Listening to the Choppy Waves in late November”

hot shop coffee
and colds apple pie:
a balm against
this first bone cutting
wind of winter


[from a forthcoming installment of “The Watchman’s Journal” at From Mile Post 604, the Port of Louisville on Substack.]

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