2025, ad / notare, Ohio River Valley Literature, poetry

ad notare 2025: 12

early May
all rain and expectation
unspoken prayers for the tomatoes
come July

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2025, ad / notare, Ohio River Valley Literature, poetry

ad notare 2025: 10

this morning’s rain recalls a rainless one, when the weather was perfect, for a bawdy sermon that found no pulpit

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2024, Autumn, Ohio River Valley Literature, poetry

Autumn Notes, 12 and 13

12.

i dream of rising waters after the storm
eyes open. the Appalachians sprout the season
wash colors down the valleys to the river

away

i dream of rising waters

13.

October is September scrubbed clean
in heavy rains
the wind coursed us here
to a cityscape glistening in bright decay
born out of fog someone reads as desperate

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