Tag Archives: Fall

2024, Ohio River Valley Literature, poetry

the bone sermon: 4

4.

September unfolds a clean blanket
this pillow night is its own prayer
cycle down when the guesswork is done

this day’s labor finished
cycle down and close the windows
wake wake to a new sun
to the harvest moon in her smile

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2023, Autumn, Ohio River Valley Literature, poetry, the no-scape, Working Class Literature

this grafting of the new age

anticipation sown in a man’s hip
takes root stretches out up down
this grafting of the new age
onto tired wood
while watching Fall leaves
pile up stripping bare tree limbs
the picture of a new season

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2023, poetry, river life, the no-scape, Working Class Literature

Autumn 2023, no. 9

is Fall kissing the tops of trees
round MacAlpine Lock and Dam

or is it just the arthritic leaves
of another denouement?

our faith here is fire and water
we wade through baptized by this oily season

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