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

Jul 14 - Bricklayer by Katrina Kaye @poetkatrinakaye on Instagram, Threads, and BlueSky. Her website: poetkatrinakaye. Her chapbook No Longer Water is available through Echobird Press

Jul 17 - Two of Cups by Maggie Devers

Jul 18 - unwritten by Zaïnab El Meziani @zainabelmeziani on Instagram. Her book Matters of the Heart: A Chapbook of Love Poems is out now. You can read more of her work on her website: www.zainabelmeziani.com. Zaïnab El Mezianion Substack

June 20 -

I’m a protest poet

Maggie Devers

And my lines ooze love

With every frivolous word.

Where else to put such horrors,

How else to remind you:

Of the way new tree shoots

Poke up high and straight at first,

Yearning for the light

And tremble slightly in the wind

And how you can’t even remember

What the elm looks like without leaves—

Well you can—

But right now it is so, so green

And the blades shimmer

As the sun passes through

So gently.

How tender we are.

How else to remind you:

How tender we are.