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

against the coming day

she sleeps against the coming day
and I lay here grateful for the passing rain

these moments, like a passing rain
in an early, unforgiving August

so few and far between like a late summer rain
we soak them up like starved dust

desperate for more, starving for one another
praying for relief against the coming day

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

treading / we you me us / moving

these moments / you me us
stolen away / us we you me
and the world seems to spin
without/ we me you us
turning as / we / do fast and slow
tickle the telegraph to hold
againt the current / us me you we
making this /we you me us / stretch
to all those well lit horizons

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2022, love and romance, Ohio River Valley Literature, poetry

not the chemical equivalent to eating chocolate

just a little time in a bit of comfortable space
the movies have it wrong, really real togetherness is just a bit of time in a bit of comfortable space not being alone together

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