poetry

forgetting the season outside

rain and Beethoven and morning coffee 
sitting in the basement
forgetting the season outside
as long as the lights stay on
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2025, Ohio River Valley Literature, poetry

hoping for an ugly devilled egg to taste test

preparing for solace among the last
of the season swimmers, drinking coffee

she is deshelling hard boiled eggs
I debate silently about digging out camping chairs-

this is how August ends. September will have its own momentum
and hopfully, there will be coffee, a pinch of pipe tobacco

and clean wool socks against the chill.

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2025, Ohio River Valley Literature, poetry, summer

It’s All Good

traffic noise ground and air on the sidewalk outside
the Schnitzelburg coffeeshop
the song of a conversation not in English – a light, stale breeze,  coffee black
and blackberry muffin warmed

the door dash driver, twice returned
with the IT’S ALL GOOD font license
plate
August cicadas yodeling death ballads from the trees

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