The crescent moon, an elbow wraps
around my waist, gray-gathering
me in like a reaper.
You’re the white
collision
of stars behind
my eyes—and the blue
blanket night pulls over our pinked
bodies spilled out like milk in the sheets.
Published in Cider Press Review, Volume 26, Issue 5.
Jen Grace Stewart is the author of Madonna, Complex (Cascade Books 2020). Her poems have been published in AGNI, Colorado Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, EcoTheo Review, Western Humanities Review and elsewhere. She is an Assistant Teaching Professor in the Program for Writing and Rhetoric at the University of Colorado, Boulder.
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