Two poems by Justin Lacour

The lacour boys and the sinister signpost

The first clue came from a woman

in the paneled basement

consider the last Jaws movie

without the shark she said

it’s just a widow who moves

to the caribbean to date Michael Caine

but it’s enough of a plot

to foster a certain

esprit de corps among us

if only for a instant

surely this is someone’s mother

the book says or at least strongly implies

she needs drinks fixed and

a pair of vegan leather pumps

all her rugs beaten another clue

she wrote the book speaking to us now

the book that brought us back here

for what purposes only she can say

The lacour boys and the cankton cove caper

And after we chum the waters

metaphorically of course

we open a sack lunch milk

and sandwiches a woman

seems to be in charge of this forest

which is also a sort of library

books balanced in limbs wedged

into knotholes there’s the books

we’ve been given and the book

we are making the woman shushes both

Justin Lacour lives in New Orleans and edits Trampoline.