2024, Ohio River Valley Literature, poetry, river life

from ‘the river north to South Point’ poem 4

I woke up one morning a bit of a grizzly old man
wearing four days of beard
hiding unruly hair under a ball cap
looking for river haints,  adoring me moon
turning my back on reflections
uncut by river currents

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

how a salmon ponders the infinite

yaar, it sounds like swimming / an echocardiogram
glub blub and bubble /lying on medical paper
not unlike butcher paper /something a monger
might’ve wrapped round the catch of the day

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2023, Ohio River Valley Literature, poetry, river life, the no-scape, Working Class Literature

Autumn 2023, no. 5

arthritis has taken what little faith I had in weather reports

talk on the boat tonight is of perfect weather
the rain holding off, the breeze

what remains, really, something more jagged
than the Pollyanna hope of local meteorology

a bit more patient about the fast / slow wobble of time

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