new from above/ground press: A Love Poem While the Children Sleep, by Julia Cohen

A Love Poem While the Children Sleep
Julia Cohen
$5

Even I will move through the night
I will move through the night out
of the way, even
 
to make room
for the thud
of love
 
call it eating the moon’s ass
 
eating the moon’s ass
is something you’d write
& I’m writing it for you
inside the thud
 
*
 
Even if our hands are cold
the same cold temperature, even
 
I will lend you
my belly
to sleep
like we are links
in a drowsy fence
fallen over
in a Wyoming wind
 
*
 
I love to fuck
up books ("A Love Poem While the Children Sleep")

published in Ottawa by above/ground press
November 2024
a/g subscribers receive a complimentary copy

cover painting:
Li Shan Chong, lovely soft morning cream bed series #1903.
Acrylic on Canvas.

Julia Cohen is the Director of Writing at Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design. She is the author of three books, most recently, I Was Not Born (Noemi Press) and the forthcoming collection of essays, Freak Lip (Texas Review Press, Fall 2025). Her work appears in the Georgia Review, The Southeast Review, Fugue, and The Bennington Review. She co-curates, with Abby Hagler, a poetry interview series at Tarpaulin Sky Magazine. She lives in Colorado Springs with her family.

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