[vc_row row_height_percent=”50″ override_padding=”yes” h_padding=”2″ top_padding=”3″ bottom_padding=”3″ back_image=”56863″ back_position=”center top” overlay_alpha=”0″ gutter_size=”3″ shift_y=”0″][vc_column column_width_percent=”100″ position_vertical=”bottom” style=”dark” overlay_alpha=”50″ gutter_size=”3″ medium_width=”0″ shift_x=”0″ shift_y=”0″ zoom_width=”0″ zoom_height=”0″ width=”1/1″][vc_custom_heading heading_semantic=”h1″ text_size=”fontsize-338686″ text_height=”fontheight-179065″ text_space=”fontspace-111509″ text_font=”font-762333″ text_weight=”700″ text_color=”color-xsdn” sub_reduced=”yes” subheading=”by Julianne Neely”]Relaxing Sounds For Sleeping[/vc_custom_heading][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space empty_h=”2″][vc_column_text]20160130: finger biting
20160201: your bare feet on my wooden floor
20160203: the colors teal and purple
20160207: photocopying a picture of your eyes
20160221: chasing geese
20160229: taking the vase of hydrangeas for a walk around the apartment
20160304: you chugging a mountain dew
20160308: rolling up currency and smoking it
20160309: a sequestered jury falling in love
20160311: the world being so small
20160320: you forcing various fermented grain mash down
20160321: you forcing various fermented grain mash down
20160322: you forcing various fermented grain mash down
20160323: counting teeth in my mouth
20160402: an umbrella sweeping gone in a downpour
20160405: you cutting the brake line in my car
20160410: sticking a fork in an outlet
20160415: pet name rallying like sweetheart like baby like doll
20160426: packing bags
20160426: unpacking bags
20160430: detangling balls of string
20160509: Evil Spirits quelling
20160516: you sucking in your gut
20160517: begging
20160528: you reasoning what to call a fly with no wings
20160604: you pulling all the books off my shelf and judging the covers
20160613: breaching the fourth wall of life
20160621: you dragging a payphone into my apartment and inserting coins all night
20160629: sharpie-ing the white sheets
20160704: 1,2,3
20160709: curtsying and praying
20160711: you salting all the drinks in the apartment
20160719: god, speak
20160724: you learning the word eyes in twelve different languages
20160728: black dye squeezing out of a tube
20160802: you expunging the innards of a stuffed sheep
20160805: hurling weight
20160808: you installing a tightrope over my bathtub
20160812: pushing food around plate
20160814: checking the apartment for ghosts
20160819: you placing your hand on my larynx and pulling my words out
20160822: waiting for the punch-line
20160823: when I get home it’s no joke
20160824: a hero losing
20160825: you forecasting meteorological conditions following the downpour
20160826: a banana breaching its peel
20160827: twilight television ratting about god
20160828: you waving a metal detector over the plates in my wrist
20160829: you live-streaming ice caps melting
20160830: love[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column column_width_percent=”100″ align_horizontal=”align_center” overlay_alpha=”50″ gutter_size=”3″ medium_width=”0″ mobile_width=”0″ shift_x=”0″ shift_y=”0″ z_index=”0″ width=”1/1″][vc_empty_space][vc_separator sep_color=”color-184322″ el_width=”30%”][vc_empty_space][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column column_width_percent=”100″ align_horizontal=”align_right” overlay_alpha=”50″ gutter_size=”3″ medium_width=”0″ mobile_width=”0″ shift_x=”0″ shift_y=”0″ z_index=”0″ width=”1/3″][vc_single_image media=”57210″ media_width_percent=”100″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_column_text]Julianne Neely, 23, is a Truman Capote Fellow at the Iowa Writer’s Workshop. She has been previously published in Hobart, New Orleans Review, Third Point Press, Random Sample Review, Maudlin House, and more. She dislikes bios but enjoys Twitter. Find her there: @juleneely.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/3″][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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