2022, Ohio River Valley Literature, poetry, spring, untitled series 3 (2022), work

untitled series 3 (Spring 2022)

watching the tug boats dig in
fight the current upriver
it brings to mind tires
spinning in mud

and here I am
without kitty litter

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2022, Ohio River Valley Literature, spring, untitled series 3 (2022)

untitled 1 (Spring 2022)

find your feet somewhere underneath
this head congestion is a reality trip

Spring is all bright and thorny
pollen-caked and pristine

Derby done and now the river floods

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2022, Day Book, everyday words, Ohio River Valley Literature, poetry

breathe collapse and roll

honeysuckle cross currents south
of the river 6 miles or so the wind
carries and here we walk through
and here we dig out the mud and here
we know the breeze and the whitecaps
that, rolling by, bloom and die

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