Tag Archives: self definition

2026, everyday words, Ohio River Valley Literature, poetry

A rut is what happens

A rut
is
what happens
when you
go
where
every
one
else
has
go
ne

this
is
still
true
when
you
follow
your
own
back
trail
too
close
ly

[photo: Bull Creek, Texas, taken 2016 by Mick Parsons.]

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Mick Parsons
Mick Parsons
@rivercitymick

Poet. Essayist. Fictioner. Steamboat fireman. Bit of a grackle.

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2026, Day Book, Ohio River Valley Literature, Poet's Life, poetry, spring, the no-scape, Working Class Literature

sump pit as metaphor

[Day book 2026 // Winter 3.11.26]

What we do we do
we do we do
this regeneration
it ain’t for the weak boned
this revision, life, revisited
the spring rain drains
into the sump pit and thus
beginning again
the water keeps running
and so do I
and so do I
and so do I
I do I do I do

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