Tag Archives: Easter

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
@rivercitymick

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

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Not Inclined Towards Wish Flowers

The itinerant rooster two yards over shows no interest in Easter eggs and does not seem inclined towards bunnies of any kind.

Tend to the wish flowers and john quills before the lawn mower parts arrive with the inevitability of summer.
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2023, Easter, Ohio River Valley Literature, poetry, Poetry Month 2023, river life, Working Class Literature

Day 99, 2023

driftwood enough
to crucify a thousand christs

mud to bury them three times over

me

what remains

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