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

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ignore the body cries / lumber
roll forward:

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

ad / notare 28-29

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time winds down, evidenced
by the drawn out greens of leaves
this tiredness, a worn out guest
is mollified by burner fire
building the boiler pressure up
to 50 pounds

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ignore the inner clockworkings of the world machine
this is a new one, see all the wires and whizzbangs
see! the burlesque aligator woman from Long Island pier
she writes code in a local corporate coffeeshop

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2022, Ohio River Valley Literature, poetry, river life, work

annotation on the end of a story arc

where did a year go oh where do it go
it’s 9 pm and my boots have minds of their own

I want to calm them with children’s stories and lullabies

though faith in such things wanes like driftwood stuck up against the wharf

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