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

Jul 7 - worlds without blueprints by Paper Trail Poetry @paper_trail_poetry on Instagram

Jul 8 - Fringford Brook by Violet Jacob

Jul 9 - The Eagle with Blue Feathers by Kimmery Moss @kimmerywrites on Instagram. Her book Wolf Mother: A New Love Story is out now. Wolf Words: A Poetry Subscription for Women

Jul 10 - To take death by Maggie Devers: @rembrandts.cure on Instagram. Her book, For My Daughter, is out now.

Jul 11 - I'm small, meek, pale and weak by Holly Fries @hollyf83 on Instagram.

Jul 12 - O, Cynthia by Cyn Grace Sylvie @cyngracesylvie and @greystrega on Instagram. And on Substack Cyn Grace, The Grey Strega

June 13 -

Round and Round

Maggie Devers

I can’t remember what it was

Musical chairs

And before that,

Let me grab it . . .

I missed it because I really wanted to know about musical chairs

I realized it’s an intuitive game—

The winners tune in to the music master

They know the song will stop before it will stop,

That slight inhalation

And they’re ready to sit

Before these rest

She almost made it to the final

Being in the last three

And I realized how much

She’s just like me

They played in the water

Then drank pineapple juice in the sun,

Knowing how to live so young

Ah, it was the bee

That she captured and “might not have made it

Or might have been very, very tired”

That was the thing

I remember now the music has stopped

And my mind no longer goes round in circles.

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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