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

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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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