Category Archives: travel

2023, essay, Ohio River Valley Literature, poetry, the no-scape, travel, Working Class Literature

from Minneapolis and Back, Part 2

back under the big sky
the dirt unfurls west, a tired old flag
that calloused hands are still
unable to surrender

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2023, in memoriam, Ohio River Valley Literature, Poet's Life, poetry, the no-scape, travel

from “Minneapolis and Back, Part 1”

the driving rain
did nothing to detract
from the warm colors
of dying leaves

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2022, Ohio River Valley Literature, poetry, the no-scape, travel

Winter as a leaving season

Train whistle calls
still make my throat catch
my feet pause mid-walk
starting to turn toward
off and off and gone

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