2026, Amelia Grace, birthday, Day Book, Haiku, Ohio River Valley Literature, poetry

root everywhere and thrive: two haiku on my granddaughter’s birthday

8.

oh Equinox baby
you are the earth made
all new: all hope

9.

the best spring flowers
root everywhere and thrive:
hot house buds die

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Mick Parsons
Mick Parsons

Poet. Essayist. Fictioner. Steamboat fireman. Bit of a grackle.

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2026, birthday, Day Book, Ohio River Valley Literature, Poet's Life, poetry, prose, Storytelling, the no-scape, winter

Daybook 2026 // Winter 2.20.26 (Year 53)

Born the year of the water ox
a fish out of water
in every tributary and ocean

still I swim
filled to the gill
with all I need

Been trying to find a way to sum up, though I hate to engage in that kind of math. The injury I allow myself comes from allowing myself to get too attached to the job. I knew, down deep, it wouldn’t last. There wasn’t enough to sustain it, and the thing toppled like all castles built on sand or so goes the old parable, and I have discovered, much to my surprise, that I still have a sense of dignity. I end up making my way through the world in the exact same way. And so I do.

And so I will. 

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2023, birthday, Ohio River Valley Literature, poetry, Stella

we’re all born aliens, all born with gills

you were too small
looked like the world
might swallow you up

I am so glad
it didn’t

Stella
Stella and me, the Fonzie pic
Stella and me at her wedding
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