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 poems

• Life Is The Backside of Embroidery by Aasfa Siddiqui
• Unnamed Season by Jules Travers
• “Hija de tu madre.” by Elisha Fernandez
• Lilies by Madilyn Lopez
• Rash by Viviana Abnur
• Sparrowfall by Arch Budzar

Plus one new one to carry us into the week ahead

YOLO

Maggie Devers

Thank god I’m a millennial and learned

YOLO

At a pivotal period in my life.

Who thought I’d pull her out again for

WWIII,

But there you are—

There we are:

Only

Living

Once

Unless we’re considering reincarnation—

Which I do most days—

Even those I only live once.

But I think it means

We only get this moment once

(That we conceptually understand—)

We probably live many moments at once

And maybe that’s why WWIII feels familiar

And why grass smells like home

And getting smacked in the face by a wave feels like a baptism

Waves YOLO—

They live and die

With the tug of the moon.

Icarus YOLOed the sunrise,

And I feel like he really got it.

So I sit in the sun and feel wax

Melting down my shoulder blades

As I stare at the ocean

And tell my daughter the history of YOLO.

More from Maggie Devers ↓

• My debut poetry collection, For My Daughter, available as an audiobook.
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More from this week’s poets

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