The First Day
I sat cross-legged
on the table and
asked everyone,
one at a time,
who they were,
leaving you
last.
Luigi Coppola – www.LinkTr.ee/LuigiCoppola – poet, teacher, avid rum and coke drinker. Selected for Southbank Centre’s New Poets Collective 23/24, Poetry Archive Worldview winner’s list, Bridport Prize shortlist, Ledbury and National Poetry Competition longlist, he performs music as ‘The Only Emperor’, and has a debut collection from Broken Sleep Books due 2025.
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