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

Jul 28 - Unholy Hunger by katherine kier. @katherinekier on Instagram and Substack. You can listen to her soundscapes at katherinekier.bandcamp.com

Jul 29 - Noon. by Sophie M. (Almon) Hensley

Jul 30 - Wednesday Double Feature Mourning Politely by Anne Card @annephora on Instagram. Anne Card at Sit for a Spell on Substack.

Jul 31 - Irises by Maggie Devers. Read my debut poetry book, For My Daughter. Follow me on Instagram for more poetry @rembrandts.cure

Aug 2 - You’re so hot by Jacqueline McCoy. @kaleidoscope_eyesx0 on Instagram

Aug 3 -

Ask the Bear

Maggie Devers

I want to know what the bear knows

What the ocean knows

what my heart knows.

Might it all be the same.

Does the bear not love?

Does the ocean not mourn

is my heart not wild?

But how to know what the bear knows

Maybe the salmon swimming in the stream will tell me.

Or children who have learned to war like a bear

Or the ghost of the hiker mauled by the bear

There must be truth in all they know

Or I could just ask the bear.