Category Archives: psychogeography

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

Autumn 2023, no. 22

all fires are meditative, even forest fires
watching the burners I remember the year
the mountain burned, an Easten Kentucky town
flooded and the world did not end then, either
it’s all water now and fire:
the elements have finally taken me
governed by thermodynamics and pressure
I watch the wind and river traffic
in my dreams I feel the rocking of waves
the whole of this land ship not yet asunder

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

Dear Goldie Johnson said 20 years ago, with a bit of Creole stuck in her teeth

then, just like this one now
a short burst of summer rain, afternoon sun reflecting the birth and death
of a billion new galaxies: “The Devil’s Wife
done kicked him out da bed.”

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