James Laughlin

The Last 46 Seconds

  The ninth day commemorating the last moments of George Floyd’s life.   I Want to Breathe by James Laughlin   I want to breathe   you in I’m not talking about perfume or even the sweet odour   of your skin but of the air itself I want to share   your air inhaling […]

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File under strange, but true

In last Sunday’s New York Times former science reporter John Schwartz wrote an op-ed piece about the eerie accuracy of novels in predicting the future.  I can’t make any such claims for poetry–-not least because the scope of my poetry reading is so small and for all I know there exists a tradition of science […]

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Ready for my close-up

I Want to Breathe by James Laughlin I want to breathe – you in I’m not talking about perfume or even the sweet odour – of your skin but of the air itself I want to share – your air inhaling what you exhale I’d like to be that – close two of us breathing […]

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