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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July 07, 2025 worlds without blueprints by Paper Trail Poetry
worlds without blueprints
Paper Trail Poetry
Letter blocks, green, blue, and red,
Are the only reading materials
For a solitary teddy bear
Lodged between two toy tractors
Collecting dust in the old toy chest
A myriad of memories sit dormant
In this attic abode, awaiting
A nostalgic itch to come searching
I know you remember those days where childlike wonder bloomed
As sun streamed through open windows,
Laughter filled the room,
And imaginations worked over time
To construct worlds without blueprints
Let these relics of your past reveal
A thread you never tugged on
To rekindle that quiet spark of joy
More from Paper Trail Poetry ↓
* @paper_trail_poetry on Instagram
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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July 06, 2025 Sunday Recap & Found Art by Maggie Devers
Here’s your recap of this week’s poems plus one new poem to carry us into the week ahead.
Jun 30 - Someone, open me up by Lindsey @writing.by.lindsey on Instagram. She is currently working on a poetry book.
Jul 1 - Sonnet: To The Poppy by Anna Seward
Jul 2 - No one needs to invent time travel by Christiana Doucette. Her website: Christiana Doucette. @doucette515 on BlueSky, Instagram, Threads, and TikTok. Her haiku “sudden downpour” appears in Where the Mountains Were: A Helene Disaster Relief Haiku/Senryu Anthology. All the profits go to The Foundation for Lake Lure & Chimney Rock Area Businesses.
Jul 3 - She’s got a handle on it by Maggie Devers: @rembrandts.cure on Instagram. Her book, For My Daughter, is out now.
Jul 4 - The American by Connie Helena @journalof1000days on Instagram.
Jul 5 - Look it in the Mouth by Katie Gilmour @katie_jean_gilmour on Instagram.
June 29 - Found Art
Maggie Devers
A stack of celluloid prints strewn in the street
Slowly coming undone
The top naked woman in an earthen room with a skylight
The roundness she mimics with her hands
And again with her breasts
In black and white
How tasteful it all was until she found her way to the street
Recently, since there were no tire marks
And I had to consider if it was intentional or chance that she was there
A careless photographer?
Or jilted lover exiting the contents from their home?
I took her with me
I wonder if she’ll be missed
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.
🍎 Submit Here 🍎

This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit rembrandtscure.substack.com
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July 05, 2025 Look it in the Mouth by Katie Gilmour
Look it in the Mouth
Katie Gilmour
all I really want
is for you to make me
something only you can make
let it be a chore
let it take hours
let your back give out later
because of the way you had to stand
learn a craft for years
or even as a child
and then when I ask you for it
give it to me
carve the wax
pour the gold
pull the trigger
cut around those little feet
and peel the skin
pick up that pencil
and draw and write me
words that are true
give me the stories
you have kept
from me
before you die
and take them
all with you
More from Katie Gilmour ↓
* @katie_jean_gilmour on Instagram
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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This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit rembrandtscure.substack.com
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2min
July 04, 2025 The American by Connie Helena
The American
Connie Helena
in repose
I chose
a bit of small white coral
hidden in my pocket
so as not to get caught
collecting at the beach
has gone out of favor
my rebellion
it is so tiny
get me off this rock
I like the rainbows
but something is not right here
something is dead here
in my pocket
and now I am carrying it home
More from Connie Helena ↓
* @journalof1000days on Instagram
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.
🍎 Submit Here 🍎

This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit rembrandtscure.substack.com
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2min
July 03, 2025 She’s got a handle on it by Maggie Devers
She’s got a handle on it
Maggie Devers
She won’t let me clean the dirt from under her nails
She holds onto it as a matter of distinction,
An indication of her interests.
The grey, opaque polish covers it completely
But not the pink sparkles.
Both will degrade equally
To reveal the dark line still in place,
But this will take a day or two.
Now it’s time for bed
Sleep well, I tell her
Her response,
I will!
Rings of with the certainty
Of fresh nails.
* Read my debut poetry book, For My Daughter
* Follow me on Instagram for more poetry @rembrandts.cure
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.
🍎 Submit Here 🍎

This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit rembrandtscure.substack.com
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2min
July 02, 2025 No one needs to invent time travel by Christiana Doucette
First published in The Thieving Magpie
No one needs to invent time travel
It’s already here. We’re already traveling.
The slam of a door layers then with now.
Raised voices split screen brains
send us back to prisms of pain.
The moment of terror as the airplane turns just so.
Oh, sky that certain clear cold blue, we go
back. We are washing dishes here
suds between our fingers. Indoor. But fear
places us in the car. Plays the announcers
voice crumbling like block towers. Fall.
Time travel exists inside us all. Thinning reality.
What we need to invent is a way away from time’s debris.
A failsafe to replace ache, mistake, heartbreak
with joy. With birds singing clear and sweet, laughter
echoing down the street. Ice pops running down chins,
grins between grandparents. Transparent moments
when the sun shone through the clouds. Just. That. Way.
Golden molasses dough rolled in sugar. Crinkled cookies
cooling on the counter. The need is plain.
We just need time travel that isn’t to pain.
- Christiana Doucette
* More from Christiana Doucette ↓
* Her website: Christiana Doucette
* @doucette515 on BlueSky, Instagram, Threads, and TikTok
* Her haiku “sudden downpour” appears in Where the Mountains Were: A Helene Disaster Relief Haiku/Senryu Anthology. All the profits go to The Foundation for Lake Lure & Chimney Rock Area Businesses.
You can listen to me read Christiana Doucette’s, Lifting Weight, over on Instagram @rembrandts.cure
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.
🍎 Submit Here 🍎

This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit rembrandtscure.substack.com
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4min
July 01, 2025 Sonnet: To the Poppy by Anna Seward
Sonnet: To the Poppy
Anna Seward 1742 – 1809
While summer roses all their glory yield
To crown the votary of love and joy,
Misfortune’s victim hails, with many a sigh,
Thee, scarlet Poppy of the pathless field,
Gaudy, yet wild and lone; no leaf to shield
Thy flaccid vest that, as the gale blows high,
Flaps, and alternate folds around thy head.
So stands in the long grass a love-crazed maid,
Smiling aghast; while stream to every wind
Her garish ribbons, smeared with dust and rain;
But brain-sick visions cheat her tortured mind,
And bring false peace. Thus, lulling grief and pain,
Kind dreams oblivious from thy juice proceed,
Thou flimsy, showy, melancholy weed.
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.
🍎 Submit Here 🍎

This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit rembrandtscure.substack.com
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2min
June 30, 2025 Someone, open me up by Lindsey
Someone,
open me up.
Fillet me,
from my shoulder blades,
kneed out the knots I’ve collected
throughout the years.
Flip me over and crack open my ribcage,
lungs deflated,
heart popping out at you like a jack-in-the-box.
Pour bleach down my airways,
forget other aesthetics
and make me pure like a candy cigarette.
cut out my heart,
Rumor has it that it's beaten for too long.
Look inside,
see the heart string that broke,
the thinning of the aortic valve.
I hear my liver is rotten,
kidneys growing mushrooms;
my throat’s got a hole in it,
my tongue growing blue.
Put a heart-shaped patch
over every hole I've made, give me new, paper maché organs,
ones I can’t feel in my chest.
Give me taffy heart strings
in a cotton candy heart,
pump me with helium,
and sew me back together with
ribbon and maybe,
just maybe,
I’ll be okay.
- Lindsey
More from Lindsey ↓
* @writing.by.lindsey on Instagram
* She is currently working on a poetry book.
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.
🍎 Submit Here 🍎

This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit rembrandtscure.substack.com
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2min
June 29, 2025 Sunday Recap & Whir by Maggie Devers
Here’s your recap of this week’s poems plus one new poem to carry us into the week ahead.
Jun 23 - Hunger, as Salvation by Ariel K. Moniz: @kiss.of.the.seventh.star on Instagram. Her chapbook, Nostos Algos, is published with Ethel, a Micro Press.
Jun 24 - Shadows by Harriet Monroe
Jun 25 - playing god by Michaela Godding: @michaelagodding on Instagram. Her book, the year our grandmothers died, from AOS Publishing will be released February 2026. Her chapbook, Dwelling, is out now from Bottlecap Press.
Jun 26 - Inheritance by Maggie Devers: @rembrandts.cure on Instagram. Her book, For My Daughter, is out now.
Jun 27 - Gender Affirming Care by Nikki Grierson: @poeticallynikki on Instagram.
Jun 28 - fatal dance - a love story between fire and wood by velvetpoetess: @velvetpoetess on Instagram
June 29 - Whir
Maggie Devers
The flower falls from the tree
And floats in the water
Animated in her demise.
That she’s held on this long,
To the middle of September,
Is remarkable
Then again it’s warm
And these days summer stays
The girl teaches me tricks
Bossy described this type in the olden days–
Back in the eighties when they still spanked kids,
She’s heard the stories.
But I want to protect her from bossy
I think as the hummingbird hovers
Wondering what to do with flowers in the pool
Chirping noisily to protect the nectar still enthroned in the tree
Not bossy, just direct
As more flowers fall
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.
🍎 Submit Here 🍎

This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit rembrandtscure.substack.com
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9min
June 28, 2025 fatal dance - a love story between fire and wood by Velvet Poetess
fatal dance - a love story between fire and wood
Velvet Poetess
there is this certain hunger
a hunger that cannot be satisfied by
another but you
I reach out my hand
don’t let it be in vain
for we both know how this shall end; let us
at least celebrate it properly
dance til death with me
let us light up this world one last time
before my hunger will have been forever
satisfied;
before the only remains of your existence
are smoke and ashes
More from velvetpoetess ↓
* @velvetpoetess on Instagram
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.
🍎 Submit Here 🍎

This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit rembrandtscure.substack.com
...more
2min

FAQs about One Poem Only:

How many episodes does One Poem Only have?

The podcast currently has 109 episodes available.