iPoems

Nicole Cooley is a Louisiana-born poet and the author of several collections, including Breach, about Hurricane Katrina; Milk Dress, cowinner of the Kinereth Gensler Award; and Object Elegies (2017). She has also written a novel, Judy Garland, Ginger Love as well as a digital chapbook, Frozen Charlottes: A Sequence (2016). Her many honors include the Walt Whitman and the Emily Dickinson Awards. Cooley directs the MFA Program in Creative Writing and Literary Translation at Queens College and lives outside New York City with her husband and daughters

Marriage as Rock Quarry

An iPoem

by Nicole Cooley

We’re phosphorus, we’re this glowing
rock under UV light in the mineral shed.

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