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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2024, Ohio River Valley Literature, poetry

Don’t trust an August cool down

That is almost a breath, wheezy machine. Between the run off of brutal rains we thin what garden tomatoes remain. This summer is a lingering fast forward: an uncovered VCR tape of memories. The lungs want to trust; anything to escape the sensation of drowning. Each day a fish is forced to grow legs a heart a steam engine smelling of diesel and life. These joints need appropriate crank grease. The skin is a bilge wall, keeping in the sweat. This day, a magnetic tape of dreams, brittle under the sun.

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