2026, Day Book, Ohio River Valley Literature, poetry, the no-scape

I pray again that the earth will take itself

I hear a heavy truck on the street and dread that the onion grass has mechanized and is becoming aggressive.

It’s the day after Easter and I pray again that the earth will take itself back sooner and save me from yard work,

the way I remember, from when I was a kid, the End Timers praying for the bombs to fall
and justify their faith to the poor neighborhoods in town

where the couches burned when the basketball game went the wrong way.

[Daybook 2026 // Spring 4.6.26]

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Mick Parsons
Mick Parsons

Poet. Essayist. Fictioner. Steamboat fireman. Bit of a grackle.

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2025, Haiku, Ohio River Valley Literature, river life

a broken haiku for abandoned toys

loved and abandoned
stuffed animals on a wharf bench
a childhood gone

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

from “on the orbit of honeysuckle blooms”

As a child at an altar of stones
in the strip of woods behind my house
I swore a blood oath
to not let the days pass by
in forward looking

the mud caked on my shoes sealed the pact

I have never really kicked it off

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