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2026, Day Book, Ohio River Valley Literature, poetry, the no-scape

I pray again that the earth will take itself

I hear a heavy truck on the street and dread that the onion grass has mechanized and is becoming aggressive.

It’s the day after Easter and I pray again that the earth will take itself back sooner and save me from yard work,

the way I remember, from when I was a kid, the End Timers praying for the bombs to fall
and justify their faith to the poor neighborhoods in town

where the couches burned when the basketball game went the wrong way.

[Daybook 2026 // Spring 4.6.26]

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Not Inclined Towards Wish Flowers

The itinerant rooster two yards over shows no interest in Easter eggs and does not seem inclined towards bunnies of any kind.

Tend to the wish flowers and john quills before the lawn mower parts arrive with the inevitability of summer.
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2026, Day Book, Ohio River Valley Lit, the no-scape

T-Minus / Double-Edged Prayer

T-Minus

The morning after the storm
and the rocket launch, the first
I watched since 1986,
I’m drinking coffee and making plans
to roll on home down I-64.

There is always one more
countdown clock, always
another round of system checks
and then, when the time is right,
go.

Double-Edged Prayer

the grass grew in my absence
and still I have to service the mower:
new plug, new air filter,
the double-edged prayer
that pulling the cord will
and will not start the mower
and the summer will come, strangle
the house in tall grass and native weeds
terrifying the neighbors who walk their dogs
in front of my house on the same sidewalk
where the guy next door sells
his widower father’s prescription pain pills

[Daybook 2026 // Spring 4.2-4.3.26

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