feeling

envy

You don’t look so good / Tell me about it? / I won’t fix / I want to

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• Post author:January River
• Post category:Poetry
• Post published:May 5, 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

fable

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

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

potential

What if I could get / higher / What if I can / if I try / What if I don’t

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• Post category:Poetry
• Post published:March 10, 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 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

support

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

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• Post category:Poetry
• Post published:December 2, 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

compensate

Castles Made of Sand

I made something 
It’s nice but 
that’s not why I made it

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• Post author:January River
• Post category:Poetry
• Post published:June 24, 2025

reservoir

Here on Maple Street 
the blacktop grade is off 
a few degrees…

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• Post author:January River
• Post category:Poetry
• Post published:June 17, 2025