L. S. Klatt has published poems recently in Columbia Poetry Review, Denver Quarterly, Indiana Review, and New Orleans Review. New work will appear in The Common, The Iowa Review, Eleven Eleven, Missis
This summer, in the middle of my poetic journey, I lost my way.
For twenty years now I have invested in the craft of poetry, and, though it’s
taken some time to
I killed a man with a javelin. The javelin wobbled
in the air but made no sound.
The victim was a gray man in a herringbone suit,
& the javelin went through him.