Justin Lacour

Sonnet (Holy cow!)

It’s the foggy season here. The Channel 8
Morning Edition reports: at an animal
shelter in W. Virginia, a pigeon that can’t
fly & a chihuahua that can’t walk have
become friends & I am easily moved
by this news, maybe b/c there’s a stone in
my chest where my sense of proportion
should be. I read old diaries & books about
art to bring the thin spark of culture into my life.
You could fill Lake Pontchartrain w/all I don’t
know about abstract expressionism & that’s a
problem b/c I want to talk to you on a superfine
level, the level of brushstrokes, putting aside all
that’s not color & light for a minute.

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Justin Lacour lives in New Orleans and edits Trampoline: A Journal of Poetry. He is the author of My Heart Is Shaped Like a Bed forthcoming from Fjords Review.