Category Archives: untitled series 3 (2022)

2022, Ohio River Valley Literature, poetry, spring, untitled series 3 (2022)

untitled series 3 (Spring 2022), numbers 13, 14

13.

her name was always Little Sis and somehow, no matter what she did, she could not escape the salmon hounding her every move like some forgotten story by Dashell Hammett

14.

these curses come back again like bad movie remakes and over-mayonnaised pasta salad left out in a late June heat

oh little one the future is too full of midnight
and you are so much sun

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2022, Ohio River Valley Literature, poetry, spring, untitled series 3 (2022)

untitled series 3 (Spring 2022), number 12

this Ohio Valley air makes lungs sticky
the way meat rots in the heat

one must be deliberate now, not think
each cough expels some important chunk but

an unnecessary left over bit not included
in the illustrated instructions

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2022, Ohio River Valley Literature, poetry, untitled series 3 (2022)

untitled series 3 (Spring 2022), number 11

I swear I swear I only turned away for a second, looking for that moon, smiling like a mad barber

that insurance salesman smirk does no one any good and does nothing for the smooth curvature of your lower back, exposed and in need of a kiss

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