LAURA LEHEW
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It's Always Night, It Always Rains

IT'S ALWAYS NIGHT, IT ALWAYS RAINS (Poetry) 2012
​WinterHawk Press

In the anthology Ashes Caught on the Edge of Light: Ten Chapbooks.

Before Poetry there was my murder mystery novel. Returning to my first love, this is my chapbook of murder/noir poems.
Currently out of print.

Please Don't Text and Drive

a billboard on Highway 40 in St. Louis, MO
 
no
I said no
one wrong thing
the answer
 
a minor stupidity
sorrow and salt
she was my something else
radiance
 
before the bite of the fruit
vengeance splayed
through the afternoon
I wanted her to stay
 
decanted
 
but the gun kept going off
a gun is a gun is a gun
she was made up entirely
of fixed-blade arrows
 
the proper weight of things
taillights in the rain
like a rifle
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  • About
  • Books
    • Let Widows Be Widows
    • Dear John--
    • Willingly Would I Burn
    • Buyer's Remorse
    • Becoming
    • It's Always Night, It Always Rains
    • Beauty
  • Recordings
  • Craft
  • Readings & Workshops
  • Poetry for the People
  • Contact