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Channel Markers & Road Signs

Mick Parsons

Channel Markers & Road Signs: stories from Mile Marker 604 to the open road & back is the record of journeys from the Port of Louisville to the pretty much everywhere. There are poems, stories, essays about life on the river, on the road, and at home.

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Reading in Steel City with James Hamilton (w/ special thanks to James and Mosh)

from Conjure Bar & Stage. Photo by Mick Parsons

“For a friend with an understanding heart is worth no less than a brother”

-- Homer, The Odyssey

The restaurant has been closed for years, maybe close to a decade now. There’s no use in bl...

30 hours ago
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The Beauty of Insistence in an Age of Acquiescence

Before the cruise, between boiler firings. Photo by Mick Parsons

What the river can offer that factories and warehouses can’t, though is while factories and warehouses suck your will to live and your very soul, the river can, if you let it...

5 days ago
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The Lotus Nibblers and Great Poetic Beasts

“Each man delights in the work that suits him best.” ― Homer, The Odyssey

“The worst pain a man can suffer: to have insight into much and power over nothing.” ― Herodotus, The Histories

“Insult somebody kindly.” - Ralph Steadman, from A C...

12 days ago
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Return of the River Possum

What remains, what clings to. Photo by Mick Parsons

I took my time anyway, and touched every valve and surface, picking up the knowledge and putting it back in my bag of tricks. I took in the smells, the port side breeze, the energy of the...

16 days ago
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The Man with One Eye

I know what you’re thinking. NO, I haven’t even gotten to the event yet. But I get wrapped up in the storytelling, the imagery and pageantry of it all. I made what I consider to be pretty darned good field notes while in Steel City and The...

19 days ago
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    Poet, essayist, tale teller, and gentleman scholar with well-worn heels. Steamboat fireman. Former educator, former journalist. Bit of a grackle.

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