forgetting the season outside

rain and Beethoven and morning coffee 
sitting in the basement
forgetting the season outside 
as long as the lights stay on

2026, Ohio River Valley Literature, poetry

Spring Rain: High and Tight Grass Cut



A break from the rain: the neighbors 
dragged their push mowers out
in defense of curb appeal
and the high and tight grass cut
so popular in post war diaspora
the retooled farms of yards and slab houses
protected by DTP and the attitude
that defeated the Nazis.

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2026, Day Book, Ohio River Valley Literature, Poet's Life, poetry, spring, the no-scape, Working Class Literature

sump pit as metaphor

[Day book 2026 // Winter 3.11.26]

What we do we do
we do we do
this regeneration
it ain’t for the weak boned
this revision, life, revisited
the spring rain drains
into the sump pit and thus
beginning again
the water keeps running
and so do I
and so do I
and so do I
I do I do I do