2024, Ohio River Valley Literature, poetry

clocks bleed with the usual precision

moon shines icy over the end of a crosstown shootout

there are whispers of a winter kiss

on the wharf, waiting for some fight or another

traffic dwindles

the water is odd calm

this night in a pensive city

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2024, Ohio River Valley Literature, poetry

Sunday mass as found

abandoned:
plastic beauty
in the morning river

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2024, Ohio River Valley Literature, poetry

2 poems on problems associated with time keeping

time keeping devices in the space after clocks are forgotten

track moments and days, flotsam that they are
by coffee cups and spoons
beneath a tireless moon

time keeping in a dreamless age

a break in the rain
irrelevant to the city’s undreaming

the wharf sits shivering, baptized
covered in its blanket of shade and noise

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