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  • Home
  • About/Submissions
  • Masthead
  • Featured Poets Series
    • 3 poems by Chris Prewitt
    • 3 poems by Taylor Byas
    • 3 Poems by David Hanlon
    • 3 poems by Bailey Grey
    • 2 Poems by Seán Griffin
    • 1 Poem by Jarrett Moseley
    • 3 Poems by Hannah Cajandig-Taylor
  • Issues
    • Issue 1
    • Issue 1.5: Hozier-inspired
    • Issue 2
    • Issue 3: Recovery
    • Issue 3.5: Lana Del Rey
    • Special Summer Solstice Prose Issue
    • Issue 4.1
    • Issue 4.2
    • Still Standing
minimums
 
the bartender tells me there’s a minimum/ about a bar trick
guaranteed to get you free/ liquor or a black eye. I tell him
I’m no good/ at taking chances- that I’ll have
anything with bourbon /and honey until/ my cheeks
are rye and I am three drinks blue dark/
deep.  I’m so sick of kissing soured/ mouths
wondering if you’re single now/ if somebody
is loving you/ the way I used to/ if it is
less than/ greater than/ equal to-
this is all I think of / on my walk home/ losing count
of the stars/ and how does that song go? the one where
she/ says heaven is all for you/ has been here all along/
is an eyelash wish- honey/ is that true/ is infinity/ a minimum?
in the morning maybe/ I’ll call you/ tell you I dreamed
of monarch migrations again/ of the unquantifiable.


McCaela Prentice​ is a Maine Writer and graduate of St. Lawrence University.  She is currently living/writing in New York City with her betta fish Skeletor. Her poetry has previously been featured in Ghost City Review, Lammergeier Magazine, and Honey & Lime Literary Magazine. McCaela was also an honorable mention in the 2019 Small Orange Emerging Woman Poet Honor.
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