2025, Ohio River Valley Literature, poetry, river life

It’s 93 degrees outside at 11:30pm

the river
it
takes
but
also
it
gives

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2024, Ohio River Valley Literature, poetry, river life, work

from ‘the river north to South Point’

sunset Madison Hill
moving northbound
the river unfurling into forever

by Carrollton it will be night
guided by that great snake Caseopia
and shooting stars

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

Day 57, 2024

no no it’s not
not being on watch
the days beginning to linger
this patch
of a Fool’s Spring
still waiting on the crocus bloom

still no it’s not any of that
making my boots ache
for old soil
my tired walking stick
broken still sings
of the open road

but the river draws its own
and here I sit
under a fading sunset
one more piece of driftwood
coughed up in a storm

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