2024, Ohio River Valley Literature, poetry, Prose Poem, river life, work

from ‘the river north to South Point’ (for Amanda)

My love, I want to describe to you the waxing crescent rising opposite the setting sun: the waters of the Ohio sitting calm, cut like lead crystal — lovely and unreflective. And the moon, the moon Beloved, cutting open the evening sky, an eternity of pink red orange into another endless river.

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2024, Amanda, love, ocassion, Ohio River Valley Literature, poetry

Together


These moments we steal away
lovely, but not enough.
Days, weeks, months we occupy
the same spaces in different time zones.
This is life that I would not trade

for all the open roads to lay out before me
a thousand ill-suited lovers. No.
Miles of crossed paths and messages,
fighting currents to stay connected
for these moments we steal away.

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2022, Ohio River Valley Literature, poetry, untitled series 1(2022)

f.

home is warm-hearted
bakes chocolate pecan cookies
on snowy January days

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