my body is more violent.
enraptured by its own torment.
this swirl in the alleyway
as the rain clears.
Hold your knife to the oyster. Take in the muscle, the belly. Force open the hinge. We are all our soft bodies in search safekeeping. In space neon neon space, luna rey hall holds our eyes open—in public, in private, when we’d rather close them—and compels us to witness; the chafe of society on identity, the sharp provocation of sand into pearl.
“luna rey hall’s collection space neon neon space is a love letter to a breaking body. In this book, gender is transformed and painted in the brightest lavender, and the speaker must learn to escape the societal violence of labeling anything they fear enough to try and contain.”
- Jason B. Crawford, author of YEET!
“hall’s poems challenge us, implicitly and visually, to sit in the spaces that uncertainty — which is really possibility — makes; to look at gender and sexuality like the water that permeates this glittering collection: a boundless, beautiful paradox, capable of occupying any and every shape.”
- Raye Hendrix, author of What Good Is Heaven
Release Date: May 16, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-964932-11-8
32 pages
Originally published by Variant Lit
my body is more violent.
enraptured by its own torment.
this swirl in the alleyway
as the rain clears.
Hold your knife to the oyster. Take in the muscle, the belly. Force open the hinge. We are all our soft bodies in search safekeeping. In space neon neon space, luna rey hall holds our eyes open—in public, in private, when we’d rather close them—and compels us to witness; the chafe of society on identity, the sharp provocation of sand into pearl.
“luna rey hall’s collection space neon neon space is a love letter to a breaking body. In this book, gender is transformed and painted in the brightest lavender, and the speaker must learn to escape the societal violence of labeling anything they fear enough to try and contain.”
- Jason B. Crawford, author of YEET!
“hall’s poems challenge us, implicitly and visually, to sit in the spaces that uncertainty — which is really possibility — makes; to look at gender and sexuality like the water that permeates this glittering collection: a boundless, beautiful paradox, capable of occupying any and every shape.”
- Raye Hendrix, author of What Good Is Heaven
Release Date: May 16, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-964932-11-8
32 pages
Originally published by Variant Lit
my body is more violent.
enraptured by its own torment.
this swirl in the alleyway
as the rain clears.
Hold your knife to the oyster. Take in the muscle, the belly. Force open the hinge. We are all our soft bodies in search safekeeping. In space neon neon space, luna rey hall holds our eyes open—in public, in private, when we’d rather close them—and compels us to witness; the chafe of society on identity, the sharp provocation of sand into pearl.
“luna rey hall’s collection space neon neon space is a love letter to a breaking body. In this book, gender is transformed and painted in the brightest lavender, and the speaker must learn to escape the societal violence of labeling anything they fear enough to try and contain.”
- Jason B. Crawford, author of YEET!
“hall’s poems challenge us, implicitly and visually, to sit in the spaces that uncertainty — which is really possibility — makes; to look at gender and sexuality like the water that permeates this glittering collection: a boundless, beautiful paradox, capable of occupying any and every shape.”
- Raye Hendrix, author of What Good Is Heaven
Release Date: May 16, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-964932-11-8
32 pages
Originally published by Variant Lit
