One Poem Only

History in Art by Maggie Devers


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History in Art

Maggie Devers

My husband tells me I have a twentieth century ass

And that’s a type of poem.
Rubens put touches of red on his angels' rears,
Literally rogue on cheeks
And I feel that’s what this world is missing—
More blushed bottoms
More naked debauchery
More holy stories
We laugh out loud at some of the babies,
Old man newborn is forever the haha trope,
The mortality, ever life, after life, reincarnation, universal oneness
Created for us by some Flemish dude
Appeasing his benefactor.
Before time’s up
And we walk down the mountain back to life.

* Read my debut poetry book, For My Daughter

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Submissions are open. If you have a poem you want me to read on the podcast, now’s the time.

I’m looking for the one that lights you up. The one you’re proud of. The one you can’t read without crying. The one that makes you feel something big.

Let’s make space for the one this Fall on One Poem Only.

Deadline is Thursday, July 31.

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One Poem OnlyBy Maggie Devers