One Poem Only

By Maggie Devers

A daily reading. A quiet moment. One poem, center stage: just for now, just for you. A one-night-only show, in verse.

I'm Maggie Devers, and each day I'll read you one poem—nothing more, nothing less... more

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June 23, 2025Hunger, as Salvation by Ariel K. Moniz
Hunger, as Salvation Ariel K. Moniz This moment, sun speckled and innocent—I speak of prophecies, i plant seedsof affection in your perfect, peachy ears,and it means that I am thinking of tomorrow.
I await their blooming like all great pleasures,though i do not know in what season they may come or what balm of tenderness they may carry to meas you lay your head upon the pillow beside mine.
I hope for lavender to calm me and bring the bees,those little archangels of better days and July nights,or rosemary, to remind me what it is to desire you,like a meal hours off but simmering, a promisethat spills out the late afternoon windows.
This moment here, sun drenched and pricelesssoothes like sitting down to the dinner tablefilled with the sun-bronzed faces of dear ones,or the first bite of that long labored meal.
I want the lingering afternoon hours of waiting.I want to feel the hunger rumble in my stomach thick and as alive as August storms, if it is for you.I want to pine for the taste, that savory reliefand I want it every day of this wandering life.
I want to know you, long summer daygelato-fingered savior, who I long for.I want to know you, and I want to knowin my sunshine bones that the cravingis just as blissful as the full belly.
More from Ariel K. Moniz ↓
@kiss.of.the.seventh.star on Instagram
Her chapbook, Nostos Algos, is published with Ethel, a Micro Press.

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June 22, 2025Sunday Recap & Cold Blood by Maggie Devers
Here’s your recap of this week’s poems plus one new poem to carry us into the week ahead.
Jun 16 - Midlife Calculus by Britt Kaufmann: @brittwriter on Instagram. Her website: brittkaufmann.com. Her book, Midlife Calculus, is out now from Press 53
Jun 17 - Swans by Sara Teasdale
Jun 18 - Pollen Count by Danielle Marie Cahill: @daniellecahillwriter on Instagram. This poem is published in The Quarter(ly).
Jun 19 - She has a new god by Maggie Devers: @rembrandts.cure on Instagram. Her book, For My Daughter, is out now.
Jun 20 - Him by Christy Granger: @christysdigitalhaven on Instagram. Her book, Broken By Beauty: The Beauty of Broken Bonds, is out now.
Jun 21 - After I Lost Him by Barbara Ehrentreu
Jun 22 -
Cold Blood Maggie Devers In cold bloodBones acheSeraphim chokeOn their holy wordsSongs frozen In mute frequencyElectric hums quietLights flicker outFire dimsCollapsed, a final sighNothing movesIn cold blood
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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June 21, 2025After I Lost Him by Barbara Ehrentreu
After I Lost Him Barbara Ehrentreu The sun still shinedThough its rays didn't warm meEncased in my shell of griefMy body felt neither heart not coldOne entire side of me was lostLopsided I stayed indoorsNot attempting to face the world aloneTeetering in uneven terrainI tried navigating by myselfDipping my toe into the water of being aloneAnd gradually I mendedPut together with strands of tenderness cemented with passing time
More from Barbara Ehrentreu ↓
@barbaraehrentreu on Instagram
You can read more of her writing on her blog: Barbara's Meanderings
Her book, You’ll Probably Forget Me: Living With and Without Hal, is out now
As is her YA novel, If I Could Be Like Jennifer Taylor

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June 20, 2025Him by Christy Granger
Him Christy Granger This wasn’t supposed to happenYou were not supposed to happenWhat a special ability you have
I do not trust easilyI do not trust at all
I gave up on love years agoIt was not for meThe torture it brought was too much for me
Here I amWhat is happeningThis is not like me
I will not fall for anyone ever again
I am a strong independent womanWhat do i need a man for
For the way you make me feelNever in my life has this happened to meI would like to say it had
What a foreign conceptSafe I have never really felt safe
CalmWhat is that
TrustHow do I trust you so completely
This doesn’t make senseHow did you do that with such ease
I do not love
I do not likeI do not trust
Love was for suckersI had no time for it at all
Maybe I trust men after allMaybe I don’t hate all of themMaye they don’t all hate meMaybe they don’t all want to hurt me
My experiences with men have never been goodJust once I wish they were
More from Christy Granger ↓
@christysdigitalhaven on Instagram
Her book, Broken By Beauty: The Beauty of Broken Bonds, is out now.

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June 19, 2025She has a new god by Maggie Devers
She has a new god Maggie Devers Her god is ecstatic dancingSurrender to the music, feel the beat in your marrow, your feet planted, the earth holds you, spin with her, faster and faster, until all that remains is pure joy
Her god is ItalyMotorbikes and cycles with bells and churches with bells and 14th century art and a sore neck from looking at domes and gelato
Her god is her childrenSoft bellies, chubby cheeks, that divine scent at the top of their heads, bath time, first words, crawling, walking, the rise and fall of a chest, eyes closed, blink and you’ll miss it magic
Her god is poetry Words flow through our most complex parts and hand us empathy, stanzas give rhythm to the day, lines whispered in the night bind our wounds, we heal letter by letter
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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June 18, 2025Pollen Count by Danielle Marie Cahill
Pollen Count Danielle Marie Cahill This poem first appeared in The Quarter(ly).
My computer tells me the weatherThere is a high pollen count todayAs if that matters deeply to someoneImprisoned in a glass towerAt night, my daughter asks if I saw the rainShe mimics the pattering noise with herFingers over the mound of the duvetI pretend I did.The she reminds me how in FebruaryWe stuck out our tongues to feel snowflakesFalling–so gentle and so coldWe both catch imaginary wisps for a whileI tell her that I love the rainTomorrow, I must go outside to feel the dropsOn my face–not learn about it far too lateIn the left-hand corner of my shining screen
More from Danielle Cahill ↓
@daniellecahillwriter on Instagram
This poem is published in The Quarter(ly)

You can hear me read Soft Plastic by Danielle over on Instagram @rembrandts.cure
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June 17, 2025 Swans by Sara Teasdale
Swans Sara Teasdale 1884 – 1933 Night is over the park, and a few brave stars Look on the lights that link it with chains of gold,The lake bears up their reflection in broken bars That seem to heavy for tremulous water to hold.
We watch the swans that sleep in a shadowy place, And now and again one wakes and uplifts its head;How still you are—your gaze is on my face— We watch the swans and never a word is said.
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June 16, 2025Midlife Calculus by Britt Kaufmann
Midlife Calculus Britt Kaufmann
Edited by Dava Sobel
View the poem in Scientific American
More from Britt Kaufmann ↓
@brittwriter on Instagram
Her website: brittkaufmann.com
Her book, Midlife Calculus, is out now from Press 53

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June 15, 2025Sunday Recap & This can’t be the end of the world by Maggie Devers
Here’s your recap of this week’s poems plus one new poem to carry us into the week ahead.
Jun 9 - Last Fog at Sunrise by Travers Charron: @the_inkwellian on Threads, Scattering Poem Seeds on Substack. His tanka and haiku collection, Glass Shadows, is available now. Currently he is preparing his first full-length poetry collection, Thunderclap Heart, for submission later this year.
Jun 10 - A Jelly-Fish by Marianne Moore
Jun 11 - “Tell me…” a poem by Margaux Paul: @margauxpoetry on Instagram, Margaux Paul on Substack. Her book, Unsent Letters, is out now.
Jun 12 - History in Art by Maggie Devers
Jun 13 - I look for the Holy Fuck in everything I see. by Jo Guzman: @mjvcoast & @_acuppajo on Instagram. Her books, Craving & 28, are out now.
Jun 14 - the body idea by Bree North: @zenmischief on Instagram
June 15 -
This can’t be the end of the world Maggie Devers I finally super-glued my daughter’s doll furniture back togetherIt’s only been two Christmases since I meant to do that
We’ve come too far to end here.
She hasn’t started to read yet, but she’s close. She weaves stories in her headAnd layers them on her dayLiving two lives at once
What is real anyway?
I can’t get rid of the nagging feeling that this is itShe stays in the IKEA kids’ space and I panic something terrible will happen
I don’t know why But when I come back she’s in a powerful stance at the chalkboard easelHolding on to make something important To show her new friend To share their art, their spirit
And that image grounds meTo keep on for now and not despair,This isn’t the end.
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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June 14, 2025the body idea by Bree North
the body idea Bree North I know i am not my bodyBut if i were
I would remember just long enoughFor memory to mean imprints
I would be curious as corneasWhiten with fear like folliclesWired up from the inside
Disease could be free to teach meLike feldspar fragments or meteorologyAccording to some holy mathAnd I wouldn’t even wonder about itI would be water and dirtThat’s it.
Every hand would be the sameThe same like elastic on my joggersPlastic comb fingers
God, how i would harden up when starvedAnd soften when i am fed
More from Bree North ↓
@zenmischief on Instagram

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