Mark Lamoureux: In the Moon

Displacement

& as the rain

speckles the planks:

just beginning.

To day or

to night, to say

these things is not to say

the pain is not exquisite.

Apart from myself,

a part for the bass. 

Yes yes. It’s got down

on its knees today.

Just to pick up this

lazy & held.

Down among the grass

the drops

roll on

down.

Peri’s Scope

Wink at me,

blink & see

the luncheon on

the lawn;

Under sea,

understand

still, the lovely

hound runs

in circles, the tale

of a rabbit gone

thru a hole

in the moon.

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Mark Lamoureux lives in New Haven, CT. He is the author of four full-length collections of poetry: It’ll Never Be Over For Me (Black Radish Books, 2016), 29 Cheeseburgers / 39 Years (Pressed Wafer, 2013), Spectre (Black Radish Books 2010), and Astrometry Orgonon (BlazeVOX Books 2008),. His work has been published in print and online in Elderly, Denver Quarterly, Jacket, Fourteen Hills and many others. In 2014 he received the 2nd annual Ping Pong Poetry award, selected by David Shapiro, for his poem “Summerhenge/Winterhenge.” He teaches at Housatonic Community College in Bridgeport, CT. His chapbook, Maris McLamoureary's DICTIONNAIRE INFERNAL, co-authored with Chris McCreary, was published by Empty Set Press on Halloween 2017.