Over the dark cutouts of hills,
the stars are changing their light.
One summer I climbed up
and learned all their names.
I want you to love me beneath
them, my skin stripped clean
of wanting. Bare as the red
cliffs are barren of trees, sharp
against twilight, all edges known,
nothing shielding them from the sky.
Published in Cider Press Review, Volume 26, Issue 6.
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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