2024, Days, Ohio River Valley Literature, psychogeography, river life, the no-scape, waterfront, Working Class Literature

Day 56, 2024

the river is grouchy having slept on the wrong side of the bed / people drive and wander and jog by // pause // to observe this seasonal bit of tantrum

unaware / of the amount of restaint / keeping their feet dry

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2024, Days, Ohio River Valley Literature, poetry, the no-scape, waterfront, Working Class Literature

Day 51, 2024

yes Eyorgie, it’s warm
but the pristine splash at sunset
is still colored winter

watch then, the madwoman
place stolen spectacles
on the stage chains

empty eyes watching
another night
rising

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2024, Days, Ohio River Valley Literature, poetry, the no-scape, waterfront, winter, Working Class Literature

Day 24, 2024

lashed tight and still rocking forth
and back on currents
on the wake of heavy tugs
pushing

south into the lock
water creeps up
what faith there is
placed in the flood wall

and in the lines holding
and in the inevitability
that the water eventually
goes down.

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