2023, Ohio River Valley Literature, poetry, the no-scape, Working Class Literature

from “Blood and Bone Machine”

back in my own socks —
focus on more progress
healing this blood machine
this slow going joinery
this healing of new scars

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

tea cup machine

they use this krazy glue stuff
for external sutures / body
as broken tea cup / maybe
no one will notice the crack
track progression by how
the scar looks: we want
no seepage see and there
bit by bit the tea cup machine
makes itself fillable again
one deliberate movement
at a time

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