issue 6
// poetry
On the streets of Naples,
by Lavinia Liang
a couple keeps kissing / stopped by the old wall / too many palm fronds / and slicked back movie hair / and they don’t know / about the taxi / and those kids / sleeping in their mothers’ / beds last night / but today / what of / the swimming pool outside ringed / with bodied sculptures / glorious and dirty dirty / and gunshots sound / clear as ribbons / and those kids / and watch the mountains / tongue the horizon / and those kids / they came here to run away / not to see this / but the street dogs keep barking / and the land is still far
about the author // Lavinia Liang
| Lavinia Liang is a writer, artist, and attorney. Her writing has been published in The Guardian, The Atlantic, TIME, the Los Angeles Review of Books, AGNI, and elsewhere. |
Instagram: @Lavinianshores
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