Things I Learned in the Night

For fans of Rupi Kaur, Lang Leav, and Amanda Lovelace comes the third and best selling collection of poetry from Emily Juniper. winner of the Quercus Review Press Poetry Award.

Things I Learned in the Night (winner of the Quercus Review Press Poetry Award) is a beautiful, raw poetry collection and a tribute to young love in a society that so often tries to invalidate it. In this collection, Juniper explores love, heartbreak, as well as the seeds of her questioning her own sexuality.

Like a worn blanket,
a bad hand of cards,
or flour into egg.
I fold into you easily
as if we belong
under
on top of
all over one another.
–Fold

We grow round and supple with age–
a little thicker in the thighs,
a bit rounder in the middle.
We are so full,
yet we look in the mirror and
try to convince ourselves
we’re not pretty anymore
because the magazines tell us
our soft and our stretch marks aren’t beautiful.
But go to the mango tree,
seek out a fruit,
and tell me you won’t pick the
fullest, ripest one.
–Ripe