Justin Phillip Reed
Dec 12, 2018
2 minutes
Coffee House Press
their whole heavy tongue slack
in my own throat, opiate-slow.
—from “Anesthesia Is a Country
You Leave for America”
HOW IT BEGAN: It didn’t exist yet. I don’t mean that to be snide or dismissive. I wrote the poems in because I had not
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