Laren McClung is the author of Between Here and Monkey Mountain (Sheep Meadow Press 2012). She received her MFA from the Graduate Creative Writing Program at New York University. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in reviews including The Massachusetts Review; Cerise Press; The American Reader; Harvard Review, PN Review; War, Literature and the […]
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Laren McClung: The Fortified House, Omaha Beach
Up the long path, inside the bunker wedged into the cliff, did you see the star etched into the stone wall, crossed out, a swastika drawn in? Facing la Douve from the lookout one can almost see the seasick, dead reckoning, the first wave at zero hour jumping from the landing crafts into the crashing […]
Laren McClung: If Love Only Lasts a Year, What Comes
of light blessing the house plants what comes when a tadpole has taken up in the mecca of nowhere another week passes & I sense a small world growing inside an unknown about to be erased can you imagine the tadpole splashing before a world unfolds or falls can you press your body closer to […]