2025, ad / notare, Autumn, Ohio River Valley Literature

Autumn 2025: 1,4,5

1.

moonset and sunrise:
the morning cut-like
down the middle, torn
the way seasons in transition
tear apart tired blankets

4.

the river is glass and silk
I dream of mountains

5.

I don’t recognize my reflection
in that certain light

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2025, ad / notare, Ohio River Valley Literature, poetry

ad notare 2025: 59-63

59.

the outlines of things, the things out of lines

60.

me and the mayflies, cursed and living
for today (again)

61.

out on the river
take in each leaf
each paint brush cloud
each sunset splash
to revisit in my dreams

62.

the storm clouds low on the horizon
mountains as a child might draw them:
perfection

63.

the boilerman reading Karamazov

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2025, ad / notare, Ohio River Valley Literature, poetry

ad notare 2025: 51-56 and 58

51.

I walk monochromatic hoping
to reflect the endless color in the world

52.

what war are we fighting today, wherefore we send
our children to die


53.

nothing lasts except memory
and even that
is aubject to rewrites

54.

you are a dream of an endless, eternal and flourishing garden

55.

a cyclone of last winter’s dead leaves
in the exterior alcove of downtown building –
the reassertion of an argument

56.

against the forces of erasure
we must all commit
to remembering (at least)
one thing

58.

one more bomb
one more river of blood
even still
one must live
so that beauty matters

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