2024, Ohio River Valley Literature, poetry, the no-scape

Reminiscing on the pigeons at Venice Beach

an obsession with patterns, overthinking over
early morning roll out even before the vendors

pigeons and surfers draw their designs
on air on the AM breakers the boundaries

clear: the sand is off-limits for camping
last reports 6 people dying a day on the streets of LA

while we ramp up our rolls outs in River City
murmurations of women and men

interrupted while sleeping on the grass
they don’t count them here they don’t count

at all

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

Day 60, 2024

[note from the archivist:]

self [lost]
in the vast
uncharted
lands of fiction

all maps / reports
sent ahead
on a raft
of murmurating pigeons

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