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“What I love about Louis Bourgeois is the hard bone of
narrative in each work. No forced pieties of most poets of the day.
Bourgeois is in almost every poem haunting. Superb!”
- Barry Hannah, author of Geronimo Rex, Airships,
and Bats Out of Hell
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Louis E. Bourgeois is one of the founding editors of Vox journal.
His poems and translations have appeared in many magazines and journals
around the world. He is also the author of White Night, from Finishing Line Press, Through the Cemetary Gates published
by Q.Q. Press of Scotland, and Fragments
of a Life Thirty-Two Years Gone by the Australian publisher Ginninderra Press.
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Olga in Dust
My first memory of you is
in an ancient room, with rusty tools hanging on the wall, shotguns and
rifles propped up in every corner, a nutria hide stretched across the wall,
and a blood scream so loud that it still lives in my head, like a ghost.
Creosote was thick in the room. Outside the window, dust blew between the
pines. Little tornadoes formed throughout the air, as the sun died on the
horizon. Then, there was the time you caught the gar. I remember how you
struggled as you dragged it onto the shore of Lake Ponchartrain.
Its eyes were full of fire, and it moved on wooden wheels. It wore a suit
of armor that only we could see. It lashed out at me. You laughed. Your
amber hair flowed all around against the July sun.
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