Gina Keplinger
Tifereth Apartments No. 8
I wake again
to the hammer
of our downstairs
neighbor's howl,
You like that, huh, bitch?
I do not know if
his fist is between
her thighs
or her teeth.
Bio
Gina Keplinger is a teaching artist employed with the Nebraska Writers Collective and works closely with the youth poetry program Louder Than a Bomb: Great Plains. In 2015, she was named Assistant Director of the Young Writers Camp in Lincoln, Nebraska. Gina's poetry has been published in Laurus Magazine and Black Heart Magazine. She is a sour gummy worm aficionado and, on good days, is at least as strong as her coffee.