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

Autumn 2023, no. 15

of certain concepts regarding material worlds:
when possible, follow the moon.
when the wind pushes south, go south.

do not worry over dry summers or high water.
counting white caps on the waves will not herald in a new season.
this is one more great unwinding of a sprocket.

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

Day 130, 2023

We are all casting lines into dirty water,
searching for a velvet fish of a kind forgotten by our grandfathers.

The morning coffee satisfies the needs of soul, for now. Cast, aye, and left
a pebble in the channel bound by the low and high water.

Speak another story with a hero made of fire.

Learning the great gob heart is not easy.
Memory is a steam driven space shuttle.

Here on the wharf watch for planets, for signs for the rain to bring news
of the latest universes that have been birthed.

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