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

machine logic

all this drama a drip in the pipes that grew into a clot, solution being: a machine must machine and move

there is memory in gears and and in line memory in motion memory this notion of a being machine being

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2022, Ohio River Valley Literature, poetry, the no-scape, waterfront

no. 54

We march, animatronic yetis waiting
for our moment
that dream of love and melting:
the world moves different in the cold –

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2022, Ohio River Valley Literature, poetry, spring

flip see ducks riding whitecaps

these clouds this sun
this moon this schedule
these dogs sleeping me
wandering not aimless –
the implied meaning
not tied. but these
machinations this
motion perpetual tied
to the same currents
as barges as steamboats

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