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Jesse Nathan/

Aubade

I watch you draw your socks along your calves across the room I pull my own along my calves you don’t see me yet your sheer poise you clasp the bra shoulder blade wing-like, love, you pull on your sweater and your head emerges like a swimmer’s. Like a swimmer of days.
Jesse Nathan

Jesse Nathan’s first book, Eggtooth, was published in 2023. His poems have appeared in The Paris Review and The New York Review of Books.

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Magazine, May 2026, Poetry