Poetry

web

These lines were meant to trace / a map we all could follow

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• Post author:January River
• Post category:Poetry
• Post published:February 24, 2026

insomnia

Don’t try to fall asleep / just rest your body / and rest will come / when it’s meant to

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• Post author:January River
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• Post published:February 10, 2026

relic

On the front of the garage / above a wall that was a door / is a metal loop / screwed to crumbling melamine

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• Post author:January River
• Post category:Poetry
• Post published:January 27, 2026

fixer-upper

Barbie Dream House on the curb

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• Post published:January 20, 2026

sine

The wheels on the suitcase / go round and round

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• Post published:January 13, 2026

stalling

Can we just / gaze? / she asks, cozy

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• Post author:January River
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• Post published:December 30, 2025

stuff

Nebuchadnezzar’s epithelials / are trapped beneath my nails

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• Post published:December 16, 2025

support

Some times / aren’t / Some days / don’t

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• Post published:December 2, 2025

sweeper

Eight-hundred slender fingers / on a bound hand / gently kiss the contours / of the plane

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• Post published:November 18, 2025

bound

The natives fling themselves / with abandon / into walls

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• Post author:January River
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• Post published:October 21, 2025