Held by Maggie Devers

Held

Maggie Devers

The sweetest meat is closest to the bone
The most tender, the most true
The tissue there is hardest to reach,
To manipulate from the outside.

If you squeezed my arm
How much bone would you feel?
Would the flesh push back
And guard my depths?

The fruit around the mango pit is sinewy
Unless it’s overripe,
Then it melts into your mouth.

* Read my debut poetry book, For My Daughter

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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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