Category Archives: Louisville Stories

2023, Louisville Stories, Ohio River Valley Literature, poetry, river life, the no-scape, waterfront, winter

Day 37, 2023 – no. 2

[just another broken machine washed up on the wharf when the water went back down]


Between speaking on the magic of the sun and how it’s often abused she asked to borrow my lighter. So I gave her a box of matches, told her to keep it I have more. After her 3 tries I lit her cigarette for her watching her hands tremble her fingers red fingernails chewed down below the quick then

stop relieved as she took a drag then closed her eyes … like remembering what it is to be human.

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2022, Louisville Stories, Ohio River Valley Literature, poetry, the no-scape

nos. 48, 49, 50

no. 48

Above the ever ending world
the moon scrambles up the side
of the 2nd Street Bridge

no. 49

When pressed I resort to metaphors

no. 50.

the bleeding out
wears an exhausted countenance

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2022, Autumn, Louisville Stories, Ohio River Valley Literature, poetry

why yes I did, on ocassion, wake up in strange places

The October rooster crows just before noon
somewhere across the street
between here and the rumors of sunshine
one block south

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