2023, Ohio River Valley Literature, poetry, psychogeography, river life, summer, the no-scape, Working Class Literature

Dear Goldie Johnson said 20 years ago, with a bit of Creole stuck in her teeth

then, just like this one now
a short burst of summer rain, afternoon sun reflecting the birth and death
of a billion new galaxies: “The Devil’s Wife
done kicked him out da bed.”

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2022, Louisville Stories, Ohio River Valley Literature, poetry, the no-scape

nos. 48, 49, 50

no. 48

Above the ever ending world
the moon scrambles up the side
of the 2nd Street Bridge

no. 49

When pressed I resort to metaphors

no. 50.

the bleeding out
wears an exhausted countenance

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2022, Ohio River Valley Literature, prose, Prose Poem, psychogeography, the no-scape, Watchman's Journal

Watchman’s Journal 24 Apr 22: day after Thunder

No one complains about trash left by the majority of tourists as much as they complain about the trash left by a fraction of street folks.

That includes the tourists who live at the edge of the county and only come downtown to abuse it in the name of a good time.

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