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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
vertebrates
 

he drinks in
(the middle
of) monday
and the fish
doesn’t (no)
if it wants its
glass bowl or
porcelain pool
(oblivion again)
 
I am here to talk
about it: suicidal
ideation, he said
 
a lifelong process
tap water running

during a funeral
 
they coin them The Rooms
or The Meetings — people
sitting around a table in an
old folks home or a church
basement sipping on shitty
coffee and leafing through
books beaten up by prayer
 
hands: seeking restoration
of sanity under fluorescent
lights (Just For Today, they
say) I was surprised to hear
a voice call my name. it was
mine but I couldn’t make ‘i’
contact. maybe next time --

Luna G. Reiley (@wip.img) is a habitual creator and hot blooded New Yorker. She is the founding director of NYC ASI (@nyc.asi), co-producer of COMMUNITY BOARD 2020 (@commboard2020), editor-in-chief of feral press (@feral.press) and member of Rising Sun Performance Company. Additionally, she is a former culture critic for Poets Reading The News and May 2020 Artist in Residence with Black Widow Books.
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