2023, Ohio River Valley Literature, poetry, river life, the no-scape, waterfront, winter, work

Day 30, 2023

The temperature drops
closer to sunset, then the bottom starts
falling out, the scent of approaching snow
kissing my beard. All that remains:
me, the boats, the river, the camp
under the overpass, ignoring
our dreams of Spring.

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2023, Ohio River Valley Literature, poetry, the no-scape, work

Day 21, 2023

Rest, rest machine: the world engine
chugs without thee. What they never tell
that all the parts aren’t moving all at once.
Your eye follows naturally the moving spindle
You are, for now, a free body at rest.

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2023, Ohio River Valley Literature, poetry, the no-scape, winter, work

Day 15.2, 2023

– no.2 –

(really it’s my fault really
letting the body forget
what it is to move
near pain/less)

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