Andrea Cohen
author of seven collections of poetry; directs the Blacksmith House Poetry Series in Cambridge, MA; awarded PEN Discovery Award, Glimmer Train's Short Fiction Award, and several MacDowell fellowships; her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, Poetry, Glimmer Train, The Threepenny Review, The New Republic, and elsewhere
Division Of
You took the painting of the girl on the stair.
You left the stair. You took the nail
on which the girl in a pink haze hung.
You left the hole in horsehair plaster—
and the crumbling that comes after.
“Division Of” from Nightshade by Andrea Cohen. © 2019 by Andrea Cohen. Appears with the permission of Four Way Books. All rights reserved.