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

untitled series 3 (Spring 2022)

6.

there was that time do you remember once when our rainbows all chased us into a future that looked suspiciously like a smelly potato sack

7.

tying the lines the knot proper is the proper mark
and here am I playing Ishmael about ready
to get cussed out by an ancient mariner

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

untitled series 3 (Spring 2022)

5.

the air is cool wet humid and at turns stifling fog hugging the river like bitter cake icing

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

untitled series 3 (Spring 2022)

3.

and the setting sun melts into deep pastels
somewhere in Portland

4.

we’re remembering the boil different reading seasonal temperatures like tea leaves looking for that right crisp beer, maybe, to tell us how we feel a proper cocktail to illustrate the mood
dreaming of a year that may have never been a season that never shifted we were just too young and too short to notice the sky that never falls in quite the way we think it orta

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