2024, Ohio River Valley Literature, poetry

Lean in

Late August leans in, burns the gills grown
in a sweaty July. The garden groans.
Let the yard grow; it’s a slow death
give the crab grass it’s moment
under the excitement of an unrelenting sun.

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2024, Ohio River Valley Literature, poetry

another Fool’s Autumn

the air doesn’t smell right

the colors at sunset
still burn summer

appreciate the respite
soak in the cool morning breeze

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2024, Ohio River Valley Literature, poetry, the no-scape

Tell me again about the remade world

Late summer is a mind oscillating at fever pitch

Solace is a free bag of Idaho potatoes

Do not jump at shadows they are only here to watch

The mountains are calling but it rings the wrong number

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