Category Archives: the no-scape

2026, Day Book, Ohio River Valley Literature, poetry, spring, the no-scape

Observations after dark

Watching lights in the night sky
over Carter County, Kentucky
that do not move like stars.
One could be Venus, illuminated
by the moon. Others sweep
like satellites. My friend wonders
about the light through the trees.
I assume it’s a haint.

[Day book 2026 // Spring 4.1.26]

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Mick Parsons
Mick Parsons
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2026, Days, Ohio River Valley Literature, the no-scape

obsessed with the tired formality of trees

centuries standing down the ridge / them that are left after tornadoes and fire and heavy snow / some wavering the wind the way / tired old soldiers might / after seeing too much fallen timber / towards the creek that some say / leads to a heaven of endless arteries / guarded by eternal sycamores

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bone and parts of unnecessary organs

The mountains found me pretty much as I found them.  We greeted one another like distant relatives might at a wedding or a funeral, without the uncomfortable questions or assumptions that one of us will call the other up some random day with an invite to lunch.  Except for bits of self-amputated bone and parts of unnecessary organs left buried in various secret locations along lay lines, there’s not really any evidence I existed. 

{Day book 2026 // Spring 3.30.26]

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Mick Parsons
Mick Parsons
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