Eric Lawson's poem "Nomadic Logic"
© 2022 marie c lecrivain Eric Lawson is the author of three chapbooks of poetry, four comedy collections, an always-in-progress memoir entitled Welcome to Inglewood , and four short films. He took the Best Poem honors at the 2012 Los Angeles Neo-Noir Film Festival. Most recently, his work has appeared in A Poet is a Poet No Matter How Tall , The San Pedro River Review , and The Edgar Allan Poet Journal . He is a genuinely silly person with a side of the uber profound. Just don’t come between him and his coffee or ketchup. Nomadic Logic There is no fight, only flight, in the restless heart. Answers to imagined questions on the wind. A backpack and references to MacGyver are the stock and trade of any artistic wanderer. There is no settling, only movement, forward. Winter winds bring questions which linger. Feigned air of indifference and a drifter’s hyperactivity sour those with constrictive roots. In spontaneous travel, the intrepid blood stirs. In stepping ou...