Author: Scott LaClaire
Indolence & Lovely
Good-bye to Golden Nights

If measuring
one’s life as circular
makes sense of movement,
how should we muscle
meaning into days?
As if we end up
where we’ve dreamt,
starlight for eyes
and train static
within the folds
of memory. One story
arrives
Earful
Wish You Were Here
Hit It

You don’t have to believe in the Devil
to end up with him. God’s not so easy.
Say God takes the form of an egret.
Say the Devil also takes the form of an egret.
Both have
The Trouble with Ceremony

My grenadier, Specialist Taylor, did not attend our welcome home ceremony at the Marriott Hotel and Convention Center in Coralville, Iowa, because in the hour preceding the event, as we waited outside the hotel and as our families gathered …
All Lines of Order

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Hell and Reason

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