For My Daughter by Maggie Devers

For My Daughter

by Maggie Devers

Chop off my head and put it on your shield.
I will protect you until the day I die
And all the days after that.
You think I would let anything harm the perfection that sprang from my body?
That force that is me and infinitely you at the same time?
There is nothing in the world that could destroy us,
Not when a mere glance can turn men to stone.

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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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