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

Day 38, 2023 – no. 2

The rain is long past a redemption
but there is at least a peace to it
on an unseasonably warm night.

There are no baptisms to wash away
the day no erasure. The rain whittles

like the wind whittles away
artifice years of living dryside
in this chamber of the world machine

down to what we are.

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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, poetry, river life, the no-scape

looking into the abyss it keeps off the chill


awake in smudge city / the lights on river reflect
only we do not know / we are the reflection

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