2024, Autumn, Ohio River Valley Literature, poetry

Autumn Notes, 12 and 13

12.

i dream of rising waters after the storm
eyes open. the Appalachians sprout the season
wash colors down the valleys to the river

away

i dream of rising waters

13.

October is September scrubbed clean
in heavy rains
the wind coursed us here
to a cityscape glistening in bright decay
born out of fog someone reads as desperate

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

Autumn 2023, no. 18

the rain
the rain
I would know September
without a calendar
by the foot pound
of dropping Rose of Sharon blooms

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2022, Autumn, Ohio River Valley Literature, poetry, waterfront, work

October-eve morning on the river (broken tanka)

fog off the water on a crisp AM:
a late September sunrise
oil paint orange, pink, and blue
my bed calls

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