2024, Ohio River Valley Literature, poetry

The great weeping world wrung dry

The heat will break but not before it breaks us. We do not acknowledge dreams of that blizzard from collective childhood memories, the world suspended like an insect in arctic amber… that urge for the silence right before snow falls

forgetting that silence terrifies us.

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2024, Ohio River Valley Literature, poetry

Lean in

Late August leans in, burns the gills grown
in a sweaty July. The garden groans.
Let the yard grow; it’s a slow death
give the crab grass it’s moment
under the excitement of an unrelenting sun.

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2024, Ohio River Valley Literature, poetry

another Fool’s Autumn

the air doesn’t smell right

the colors at sunset
still burn summer

appreciate the respite
soak in the cool morning breeze

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