2026, Day Book, Haiku, Ohio River Valley Literature, poetry

body remedies: 3 haiku on the first day of spring

1.
song sparrows and ants
promises of the season
call, march this new day

2.

the dogs, being kind
let me sleep in -- grace
is best unspoken

3.

body remedies:
hot coffee, fresh air
a cold face wash

_{[Daybook 2026: Spring 3.20.26]}

2026, Day Book, Ohio River Valley Literature, Poet's Life, poetry, spring, the no-scape, Working Class Literature

sump pit as metaphor

[Day book 2026 // Winter 3.11.26]

What we do we do
we do we do
this regeneration
it ain’t for the weak boned
this revision, life, revisited
the spring rain drains
into the sump pit and thus
beginning again
the water keeps running
and so do I
and so do I
and so do I
I do I do I do

2026, Day Book, Ohio River Valley Literature, poetry, the no-scape, winter

Daybook 2026 // Winter 2.12.26

Uncaught catfish can swim through and turn to river pebbles 

Wind and currents drive on their own accord
or so we would be told; there are currents
a top of currents dust to water to air to star dust
the moon the earth the planets ‘round
an apathetic sun and back down a clockwork
a whirly hurly a tornado a hurricane the white caps
on the river when the wind currents are colder
than the water and the old rivermen laugh at the office dwellers who insist on living in the forgetting that currents still sweep us along, river pebbles
dashed against waves
from one place to another