~ Delta Poetry Review ~

Louis Bourgeois

POETRY

It’s how I translate myself from an

Indecipherable tongue onto the page.

It’s how I become aware just how

Lucky we are and how doomed.

It’s how I get back all my yesterdays,

A little bit better, a little bit worse.

It’s how I pray and blaspheme; it’s the

Sign of the cross, a graven image unto myself.

It’s how I’m created and un-created,

And created and un-created.

It’s pain and love, it’s the end of a long day,

And the beginning of another.

Louis Bourgeois was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. He is primarily a poet, but he has published translations, fiction, memoirs, poetry, and interviews in over two hundred magazines and journals in North America, Europe and Asia. He graduated from Louisiana State University with a BA in English and was the first graduate of The University of Mississippi’s MFA program in Creative Writing. He is the Executive Director of VOX PRESS, as well as the Program Director for the Mississippi Prison Writes Initiative.