Two poems by Justin Lacour
- Apr 3, 2025
- 1 min read
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.