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

how a salmon ponders the infinite

yaar, it sounds like swimming / an echocardiogram
glub blub and bubble /lying on medical paper
not unlike butcher paper /something a monger
might’ve wrapped round the catch of the day

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2023, Days, Ohio River Valley Literature, poetry, Working Class Literature

Day 143, 2023

we top-of-the-water dwellers guess at god
miss the sacred salmon

the wild carp run, driving sleds steered by gator men

hiding in catherdrals carved in our own images
we find our ourselves, a failed aquatic form

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