Monique Lanier Poetry

Monique’s poetry reckons with God.

She doesn’t go quietly.

Join Monique and other writers whose work has been inspired by the poetry of Richard Siken on Wednesday, Oct 22nd, at 7:30 pm at The Earl in Los Angeles. Copies available for purchase.

Act Confused: Someone Might Save You

 

This is a real story so you can do things to it like real bodies.

Substitute carrots for the washing, the kneeling for potatoes,

Maybe get rock star parking. Anything here for anything there.

Walls for ice. Submarines for cornflakes. God points and today

we eat. Tomorrow he’ll have no hands. I should have told you.

The trinity is a trick. What does it matter if it’s one man or three?

A war is a war is a war.

Savior

 

end this

 

end this

end to end

this not stop endless

 

end this fight

end me seized

 

three days

slipping bruised

five hag hushed

nine thorny mouths

 

soak up milk

union hand fast

here

here boy here

 

here silky one

one black hound

 

here

is

my

neck