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

Day 1, 2024

back on the wharf
a reconfigured machine
a few new spare parts
better for wandering
waiting for messages
waiting for more songs

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

Autumn 2023, no. 14

a machine by any other name
energy given shape
a fish a finger a spaceship
this steam engine imagination
the where I live

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

Autumn 2023, no. 13 (a sonnet)

no, the wind does not come calling
and the suspicious absence of haunting train whistles
must be noted. still:
this river, great world’s wound,
is connected to everything.
where water goes
so goes that in me
that still flies

and that which remains finds
endless worlds stacked upon each
here at the edge
here at the land between the bridges
where the clouds, the currents, the grackle,
the heron, bring me all the news I need.

News of the World / 28 Aug 2023
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