childhood

layover

The cocoon calls / Warm and safe / and familiar

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• Post author:January River
• Post category:Poetry
• Post published:April 28, 2026

misreckoning

You think it was a regular thing / You remember it being a tradition

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• Post author:January River
• Post category:Poetry
• Post published:April 7, 2026

elevator

But then, steepness is relative / to where you’re standing / and how tall you are

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• Post category:Poetry
• Post published:March 31, 2026

fable

I remember it / clear and cloudless as the skies / that were always blue in those days

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• Post category:Poetry
• Post published:March 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
• Post category:Poetry
• Post published:February 10, 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 category:Poetry
• Post published:December 30, 2025

bound

The natives fling themselves / with abandon / into walls

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

reconstruction

Today’s poem is the first January River thing that’s been published elsewhere, which is really exciting! Check it out!

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• Post author:January River
• Post category:Poetry
• Post published:October 7, 2025

posteriority

Butt cheek! / 
Butt cheek! / 
my daughter proclaims / 
to the world

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• Post author:January River
• Post category:Poetry
• Post published:September 23, 2025