2023, Ohio River Valley Literature, poetry, psychogeography, the no-scape

all winters echo State Street 2012

wake wake from that
reoccurring dream
wandering a campus
a town a broken down
village cold empty beaches
overgrown quads
to a cold cold earth
memories
of a lonely Chicago
a ghost on State Street
forgotten
until Union Station opens
another warm dream

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2023, in memoriam, Ohio River Valley Literature, poetry, psychogeography, the no-scape, travel, Working Class Literature

from “Minneapolis and Back, Part 4”

this scratchy throat / a worn-out guitar plays only / in the key of blue

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

the long view is always either cold or hot

[map: a trader’s map of the Ohio region pre-1753 / from The Library of Congress]

long before it was a river
valley, this was all carved
by ice and inevitability
but then it melted
and the damage
was later deemed
beautiful

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