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

ad notare 2025: 34-37

34.

the bull gear wakes one day
realizes life is a great pinion
unprogamming

35.

the above water world
a rhythm
it runs
downstream

36.

glitch

37.

repair begins with risk

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

ad notare 2025: 23-29

23.

all modern apocalypses arrive in business-speak emails

24.

if you listen, god still speaks
through the transistor radio

25.

tornados are the new elephant
that doesn’t forget


26.

raising steam to exercise the machines
as an act of faith in the grand wheel

27.

old paint and tired knees
hold the world machine together

28.

I dream of trains and mountains and you

29.

my improvement on Descartes’ Mechanical Model: the universe is one giant Rube Goldberg Machine

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

ad notare 2025: 17- 22

17.

uncertainty is the rhythm of the world

18.    

my soul is a storm / this body
a temporary flood wall

19.

grant us a gentle and plentiful garden
and a dazzling end to the world

20.

then there are the days, needed
that were not known as needed

21.

this spit of summer rain will be a fantasy
come August

22.

this daydream: a world walled and safe
in a myriad labyrinth built
of honeysuckle, bamboo, kudzu

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