2025, Haiku, Ohio River Valley Literature, river life

a broken haiku for abandoned toys

loved and abandoned
stuffed animals on a wharf bench
a childhood gone

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2024, Ohio River Valley Literature, poetry, river life

dry socks make the man


revel in the mild night
a sense of rain riding the air
too cool to be spring
the post-commute traffic washes by
this spot I stand, still grateful for dry boots


[from upcoming Watchman’s Journal installment: “Wharf Fung Shui”]

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2024, Ohio River Valley Literature, poetry, river life, waterfront

a round in a cruel gentle snow globe

a light snow kicks around the wharf
the currrent of traffic sounds cuts the cold air
my tobacco pipe, the only natural light
againt cityscape’s purple-highlit darkness

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