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

Day 144, 2023 (firebox notes)

learning tips and tricks
the temperaments of burners
listening to fire:

teaching the fingers to remember
an instrument, a heart
communing with the expansive power of steam

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2023, Ohio River Valley Literature, poetry, psychogeography, river life, the no-scape, winter

Day 1, 2023

The Mary M. Miller, Port of Louisville, Mile Post 604. 14th Street Bridge (RR) in the background. Photo by Ey Mick.

Northbound train
materializing out of the fog
erased back into it

this is the time of watchmen
the time of switchmen
the time of drawbridge operators

patrolling the edges of the no-scape
the noise of interstate traffic echoing off downtown buildings

pushed up against the river, against erasure

against

living at the edge of visibility

hoping where a foot is planted is solid
and not one more dream of a new lunar year

Paddlewheel of the Belle of Louisville. 2nd Street Bridge in the distance. Port of Louisville, MP 604. Photo by Ey Mick
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