2023, Ohio River Valley Literature, poetry, Poetry Month 2023, river life, the no-scape, Working Class Literature

Day 100, 2023

the river falls
I have nothing for today
metaphors write themselves
tomorrow will research itself

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2023, Easter, Ohio River Valley Literature, poetry, Poetry Month 2023, river life, Working Class Literature

Day 99, 2023

driftwood enough
to crucify a thousand christs

mud to bury them three times over

me

what remains

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2023, Ohio River Valley Literature, poetry, Poetry Month 2023, the no-scape, Working Class Literature

Day 97, 2023

it’s day after a night shift, that twilight
under a full sun / after the last round of storms
there are rumors the river
is returning to its bed / rumors
of visitations // as the city washes itself away
driftwood pushed back into the mud
onto downriver currents through the locks
in time for the clockwatchers’ parade

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