Rus in Urbe
By James Lawless

Rus in Urbe Details:
Published: May 2012
ISBN: 978-0-9572073-0-1
Sample piece from Rus in Urbe
City BoyHow can I say
I will stay or I will go?
You left me standing
in my bare feet
on the cold stone floor.
Always querulous, I hear you say
the birds are raucous at early light.
I do not feel the cold
on the stone floor
but a wedge pressed inside me
with fingers as light as air.