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Sunday Recap & Forty-Three Is Poetry by Maggie Devers
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Here’s your recap of this week’s poems plus one new poem to carry us into the week ahead.
Oct 27 - i don't remember being small by Momena Khan @still.in.my.d4afts_ on Instagram.
Oct 28 - What Are We by Laker Patience @laker.p_poet on Instagram. Her poetry anthology, Echoes of Colour, will be out soon.
Oct 29 - Green Soup by Tabitha Dial @TabithaDial on Instagram. Her book, Cheese Astrology: A Weekly Guide, is out now. Listen to me read Apparition Appetizers by Tabitha on Instagram @rembrandts.cure.
Oct 30 - The Spider by Philippe Blenkiron
Oct 31 - Coffin monologue: The non-rhyming rant poem by Manasvita Sukthankar @manasvita._ on Instagram.
Nov 1 - "I would peel pomegranates for you—" by Hareem Ismail @wordssmith_ on Instagram.
Nov 2
Forty-Three Is Poetry
Maggie Devers
After @motheatencurtain
Twenty-four is driving without a steering wheel
Moving at a clip
Bumping into all that enchants you until you fall out a window
Literally.
And you find
it necessary
to relearn
how to
climb
stairs.
You are empty,
But thirty is flirting with the one you love,
Obsessing deeper into everything you seek.
Thirty-five is big and round and swollen
And you are full of life,
Not metaphorically,
Though that would be simpler.
Your dreams are tangible
And you learn how to feel them.
That’s forty-three:
When poetry comes into focus
And you write all you want.
It’s yours.
More from Maggie Devers ↓
- Read my debut poetry book, For My Daughter
- Follow me on Instagram for more poetry @rembrandts.cure
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