“Milk passes through me like liquid moons,
wet stars on her tongue. She sucks
till I’m emptied of all the white
cells in my celestial body.”
Enjoy this audio recording of “Aubade with Nipple Shield & Liquid Moon” by Geula Geurts from Vol. 32:3 of CALYX Journal! Buy the full issue here.
Geula Geurts is a Dutch born poet and essayist living in Jerusalem. A 2021 Best of the Net nominee, her work has recently been published or is forthcoming in Guesthouse, Pleiades, The Penn Review, Salamander, Juked, Raleigh Review, Radar, Spoon River, and EcoTheo. Her lyric essay, “The Beginnings of Fire,” was published by CutBank Books (Summer 2021). Her manuscript, Tiny Bones Glowing, was selected as first runner-up in the 2020 Red Hen Press Benjamin Saltman Award. Her mini chapbook, Like Any Good Daughter, was published by Platypus Press. She is a graduate of the Shaindy Rudoff Graduate Program in Creative Writing at Bar Ilan University and works as a literary agent at the Deborah Harris Agency.
Her new chapbook The Beginnings of Fire–about family dysfunction, religious repression of the sexual body, and coming of age, told through the lens of biblical verse–can be ordered here.