2025, Days, Ohio River Valley Literature, poetry, winter

Days 2025: Winter (1-3)

Day 1

locked down for the season
on this land between the bridges

all concrete and wild weeds
waiting for the thaw

Day 2

overnight, a cold kiss on the wind
all the New Year’s syne sang out

here we sing against the current
here we pray not to break, only bend

Day 3

the first of the sky-is-falling days–
haunted by that one winter freeze

some collective memory from before
the age of digital photography

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2024, Days, Ohio River Valley Literature, poetry, river life, the no-scape, Working Class Literature

Day 65, 2024 (end of watch)

meditate then on the weight of water
this floating life these bones
this lingering season, its sudden end
an answer hauled in on murmurating sails
pushed by blue heron winds
singing more songs under warming sun
writ under the closed eye of a sleeping moon

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2024, Days, Ohio River Valley Literature, river life, the no-scape, Working Class Literature

Day 64, 2024

this other side of a tired moon
asks only for my sleep

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