By Layla Lenhardt

Layla Lenhardt has most recently been published in Peeking Cat Poetry's Yearly Anthology, Door is A Jar, Rag Queen Periodical, and the forthcoming Muddy River Poetry Review. She has received an MFA from Western New England College. She is founder and Editor-in-Chief of 1932 Quarterly and, for this fleeting moment, she resides in Indianapolis.
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Outgrowing the Giant in my Bedroom

  When the daylight fades & the florescent harshness envelops you both, you see the steady lines & try to remember the reasons & how you were once contented with cold church steps & shared cigarettes.   You remember how the heap of clothing you slithered out of after lunch resembled a lost hound in…