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Sunday Recap & Episode 200!


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Here’s your recap of this week’s poems plus one new poem to carry us into the week ahead.

Nov 10 - Signs by Defne Kartal @defnewrites on Instagram

Nov 11 - Sometimes I feel like writing by Junaid Ali Akbar @the.misfitpoet on Instagram.

Nov 12 - "this is not a poem (exactly)" by Tess Ezzy. @themoodyproject_ on Instagram. Poetess Press on Substack. You can listen to me read Cross Roads by Tess @rembrandts.cure on Instagram.

Nov 13 - In Another Lifetime by Edyth Grace @edyth_grace17 on Instagram.

Nov 14 - The Altar I Didn’t Know I was Building by Elle Zaspel @moonvinegrief on Instagram. She publishes Howl & Hold: A Grief Zine. Issue 1 is out now. Paper copy. Electronic copy.

Nov 15 - "A lousy sunday afternoon when The world had gone" by Aliya Narghese @sylphofthought on Instagram and Substack.

Nov 16Episode 200Brood Maggie Devers The three hens at my daughter’s schoolAre oblivious to egg pricesConcerned with lunch scrapsAnd the stray termiteAnd their stair perch when the sun dips low
I wonder how they spend evenings and weekends If they miss the sound of childsongOr the Sunday scaries set in
I imagine they commune with their comradesOffer jokes and such for tradeMy daughter assures me chickens dislike the mud And I'm inclined to believe her

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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One Poem OnlyBy Maggie Devers