Tag Archives: Kentucky Derby

2024, Ohio River Valley Literature, poetry, tanka, the no-scape, Working Class Literature

broken tanka: Ol’ Derby Gone

lulled back to sleep
by overnight storms.
wash old Derby away
with the uprooted trees,
dead deer downriver.

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2023, Days, Ohio River Valley Literature, poetry, river life, the no-scape, waterfront, Working Class Literature

Day 128, 2023

(post-Derby)

after the storm, the city swept clean
the old homeless man with crocodile tears
bares his teeth, hisses, then digs through
trash cans on the wharf

storm passing by ey mick
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