“Nautical Twilight,” by Jen Ryan Onken (Poetry ’20)

“Nautical Twilight,” a poem by poetry alum Jen Ryan Onken, was recently featured on The Night Heron Barks. Read an excerpt below:

Nautical Twilight

But when below decks Jason
tried to stitch his lips to mine
the sun was still twelve degrees
under the slipknot of dawn.
By the Equinox, he’d cast
himself off from the moored
hull of the horizon… 

Read the poem in its entirety here: https://nightheronbarks.com/fall-2020/jen-ryan-onken/