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Tag Archives: gunfire

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

every Louisville summer is a grassy knoll

July 11, 2023Mick ParsonsAmerican Experience, American Literature, American poem, American poetry, gunfire, Louisville, poem, poetry, summer Leave a comment


no the gunfire doesn’t often interrupt my dreams
but what is broken is by this old man hip
its constant grinding, lost and falling
like my wife’s sense of safety
like bullets cops don’t hear either


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