2026, Field Notes, Ohio River Valley Literature, poetry, prose

The World of Yesterday

from Field Notes:

I long for the Democracy of a pre-Nazi Viennese coffee house.Someday corporate coffee dispensers will be remembered as an early anti-democratic impulse.

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2026, Field Notes, Ohio River Valley Literature, poetry

A review of NYC, medium dark, with room

2 days in this city & I cannot find myself
though I suspect that’s the point;
but I am beginning to understand
that might be the appeal
especially when there is no self
to find.
– from field notes, 7.18.26

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2026, Field Notes, Ohio River Valley Literature, poetry

Towards Towhead Island

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