2026, Days, Ohio River Valley Literature, the no-scape

obsessed with the tired formality of trees

centuries standing down the ridge / them that are left after tornadoes and fire and heavy snow / some wavering the wind the way / tired old soldiers might / after seeing too much fallen timber / towards the creek that some say / leads to a heaven of endless arteries / guarded by eternal sycamores

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Mick Parsons
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against the drowning days: a broken haiku

making the bed: an act
of self-defense against
the drowning days

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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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