Lori Lamothe’s poetry mini-collection Diary in Irregular Ink traces the connections between past and present, light and shadow, the sublime and the mundane. The poems fuse and dissolve to create an impressionistic, ever-shifting record of seemingly incongruous times, people and places: a nail salon in a shopping mall and a pattern factory during the Civil War, a mermaid in full moonlight and Joan of Arc, a seaside wedding and a post-apocalyptic backyard.

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