empty streets: / I make illegal left turns at red lights. / the moon bursts and bruises: / a plum as the aftermath of violence / hanging over the web of glowing street lamps.
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Martina Litty is a writer and poet from Laurinburg, North Carolina. She attended the International Writing Program Summer Institute of 2019, and she currently studies creative writing at UNC Wilmington. Her work has appeared in Typehouse Magazine, Slippage Lit, and Poets Reading the News, among others.
empty streets: / I make illegal left turns at red lights. / the moon bursts and bruises: / a plum as the aftermath of violence / hanging over the web of glowing street lamps.