Featured Poet: James Lawson Moore

Hello! Today’s feature is returning poet James Lawson Moore, a talented poet sharing work for a third time to the site. He has two chapbooks out in the world I’d suggest you check out, and is sharing a new poem today.

In Motion

Whispers in the dark,

footsteps in

the alleyway beneath

her apartment window—

no rest here,

so long as she

lives rent-free

inside your headspace.

Best get that checked out

before she leaves you

for good, and the alleyway gets

gentrified.

James Lawson Moore is a poet and occasional essayist living with his wife and pets in Chase City, Virginia. He has two chapbooks, Our Lady of the Locomotion and Unsocial, available from Alien Buddha Press.