2024, Days, Ohio River Valley Literature, poetry, river life, the no-scape, Working Class Literature

Day 25, 2024

thus, look upon the goghead
all wild wooly and sleek
gator-like in the dark
driven ashore with the high water
amongst the driftwood and mud
like birth, something sort of biblical
after the manner of Cain
banished, blessed

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

driftwood redrift

go on, tell them that did not know you when,
stories of what you did.

relish the disbelief in their eyes. know
you walk with 100 billion foundation myths.

yes. sometimes the way is pain.

trust what hurts. faith in muscle and bone is the lie.

know this knowing this is how you will kill the body and live.

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