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

Nov 24 - Moonborn by Aura Guerra-Artola @g.a.aura on Instagram. Her book, How to Live with a Cat on Your Chest and a Whale in Your Heart, is out now.

Nov 25 - Winter nights, burning cinder. by Sierra sylvie @the_fire_ave on Instagram.

Nov 26 - My Son in the Sea by Lisa Zerkle @hag_lore on Instagram. Listen to Lisa on Painted Bride Quarterly's Slush Pile podcast, where the editorial team discusses submissions, editorial issues, writing, deadlines, and cuckoo clocks. You can listen to me read Motherhood by Lisa on Instagram @rembrandts.cure.

Nov 27 - Canvas of Uncertainty by Asiyah Yusuf @_.echoesofreality._ on Instagram.

Nov 28 - Stuck in the Blue by Tushil Jariwala @tushil_writes on Instagram.

Nov 29 - How Clear She Shines by Emily Bronte

Nov 30

Drink It In

Maggie Devers

Someone handed me a latte
That didn’t taste like coffee
And I realized why those people
On the plane never bothered
To put up their window shades
After takeoff

We threw ours open before wheels up
It already went halfway as she chose her seat
For we need to see:

Clouds dancing in the sky,
Bags on those automatic ramps
Swallowed or spit out of the plane,
The heat still rising from the hot asphalt
As the sun sets

Is there anything more joyous than this wide world around us?
We want to know how it tastes without too much cream and sugar
But we won’t say no to those either.

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