Poetry

My most recent publication includes 10 pages of poetry in Solid Quarter, Issue 3. Click the cover image to purchase for $5, or email editor Megan Burns: meganburns@aol.com.

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Fiction

The Clown and the Tiger

I welcome all feedback on any of my writing: drggautier@gmail.com.

Additional poems are published in the following journals:
Natchez Poetry Anthology (2006)
Concrete Wolf (2002)
Louisiana English Journal (1998)
Silver Quill Anthology (1996)
The Cannon, vols. 1 and 3 (1986)

            Belle Amie: A Vision    

        Tug boats chug down Bayou Lafourche
        and one can almost see through the sun-fused fog
        Jean Lafitte with his pirate brigands
        romping in robust destruction and mirth
        hog wild in the august sun and steam.

        Or perhaps they were more thoughtful,
        pondering violence as a metaphyscal knot,
        pondering each how his own love is lost,
        himself cold and lost
                                                    twice
                                                            in the counterfeit

        sun
        of self-
        expression--

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