2026, Day Book, Ohio River Valley Literature, Poet's Life, poetry, the no-scape

Something like a literary tradition

I feel like a word drunk boxer
not wrung out, not yet
standing on the corner
in the river town setting sun.

All my favorite poets
carry a pugilist’s soul
and I am grateful
mine is too.

_{[Daybook 2026 // Spring 4.10.26]}

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Mick Parsons

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

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

drive, burn, and hurt

10.

a sweet small apple
fresh coffee and the radio
morning painkillers

11.

sing on Tom Petty sing
the days drive, burn, and hurt
but still: horizon

_{[Day book 2026 // Spring 3.25.26]}

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

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2026, Day Book, Haiku, Ohio River Valley Literature, poetry

body remedies: 3 haiku on the first day of spring

1.
song sparrows and ants
promises of the season
call, march this new day

2.

the dogs, being kind
let me sleep in -- grace
is best unspoken

3.

body remedies:
hot coffee, fresh air
a cold face wash

_{[Daybook 2026: Spring 3.20.26]}