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DRUNK MONKEYS IS A Literary Magazine and Film Blog founded in 2011 featuring short stories, flash fiction, poetry, film articles, movie reviews, and more

Editor-in-chief KOLLEEN CARNEY-HOEPFNEr

managing editor

chris pruitt

founding editor matthew guerrero

POETRY / where / Olga Gonzalez Latapi

Photo by Luis Vidal on Unsplash

you did not see them

    in silver crowns

 looking

 for   the crowns

 on their head

 

                          ;                 red wings

            [plague the night

   as it ;owes

  ; as it rings

 

 now  ;

 

                     nací

    [iré

          ;         

    upon the stars

  wild

 

 ;pave the nude

 of we

 

     of dread,

 the nest

 

          red

 meant

 the meant

 

            the tree top

 né

 the city    top

 né

 the answered

  ;  né

 the drowned


Olga Gonzalez Latapi (she/her/hers) is a queer poet with an MFA in Writing from California College of the Arts. Although her writing journey started in journalism, she is now pursuing her true passion: exploring the world of poetry with a mighty pen in hand. She got her BS in Journalism at Northwestern University. Her work has been published in Teen Voices Magazine, Sonder Midwest literary arts magazine, BARNHOUSE Literary Journal, Wild Roof Journal, Impossible Task, Genre: Urban Arts, Biscuitroot Drive, iaam.com, and The Nasiona Magazine. She is the translator of the upcoming Reflections of an Old Man (Pensamientos de un Viejo) by Colombian philosopher Fernando González, as well as a spoken word album with Amaryllis Recordings. Originally from Mexico City.

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