About this episode
One Poem More gathers all of this week’s poems from One Poem Only—an unhurried chance to listen again, or catch what you missed.This week’s poemsOperating Instructions for the Day After Your Best Friend Tells You He Supports Genocide by Jané DowdSwan Dive by Maia von MaltzahnCycles by S. SalazarAn Emblem of Wounds by Henry Opeyemimortal perch by Amanda ThuyA Dream by Edgar Allan PoePlus one new one to carry us into the week aheadCling to MeMaggie DeversI lay on the California coastListening to the wavesLooking out to the Santa Monica mountainsAnd nestle into the earth like a loverhunting out the soft spot near your collar boneOr a toddler, shyly hiding behind your knee,peering out only to retreat into the smooth safety of a jointThe parts where we come together are the most tenderI realize as I drag my fingers through the damp sand, bits of ocean foam clinging to its surfaceLife unfolds in the crevicesAt first we grow curled up and long for the pressure of the womb once we are bornThen we learn to grow by stretchingTo unfurl our limbsSo when we find ourselves in a tight spot we burrow deeper to feel safeWe grow roots that entwine with the roots of those we love
