To Daughter a Devil

By Megan Mary Moore

To Daughter a Devil explores women in horror and the horror in being woman. Each poem puts a magnifying glass to the female body and uses the most beautiful and the most terrifying parts to paint a picture of growing up and learning to live with — and possibly love —  the evil that lives inside of us.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Unsolicited Press
• Release date: Mar 2, 2023
• ISBN: 9798215875667

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For the woman who daughtered her own devil, my mom.

This is the way of an adulterous woman: she eats and wipes her mouth and says, ‘I’ve done nothing wrong.’

— Proverbs 30:20

Poems

The Hickory Horned Devil

Evil Lives in Sweet In Between Spaces

Baby Bezoar

After Rosemary Picked Up the Baby

Mrs. Vorhees to the Camp Counselor

I Only Remember Being a Bad Daughter

Seeing JonBenet Ramsey’s Photo For the First Time

Bad Seed

Cyclic Vomiting Syndrome

Young Blood

Men Burned the Women. Girls Told Them To

To the Dead Bat in the Parking Lot

Enfield Poltergeist

To Daughter a Devil

Independence Day in the Wetlands

Your Reflection Kisses You Back With Tongue

It’s the House

The Devil Shows You How to Use a Tampon

If Gregor Samsa was a Girl

Why She Declined Her Father’s Invitation to Disney

My OCD Tells Me to Ask ‘What Does It Feel Like   55

to Be Beautiful’ 5 Times before Looking in the Mirror 

Aphrodite Teaches Me

Four Girls Laying Under a Willow on June 10, 2020

Taking a Nude Photo for a Boy Online

Our Love is a Two-Headed Calf

Monster

My First Spell

If Swan Lake Had a Happy Ending

Horse Lashes

I Can’t Talk to Ghosts, But They Can’t Talk to Me Either

Madame Tussaud Makes a Death Mask of Marie   81

Antionette in Madeleine Cemetery 

Animal

10pm on 4th of July 2021

How I Became Bigfoot

Eulogy for the Doe on the Side of State Route 128

In an Effort to Stop Writing Poems About Dead Deer

Cicadas of Brood X

She Wasn’t Afraid of Insects Anymore

Superman Lands on My Balcony

Dirty Doll

The Body Farm

Carrie Moves to New York and Changes Her Last   106

Name to Bradshaw 

After Finding Bed Bugs in Our First Apartment

I Ask My Realtor How to Keep the Ghosts the Same

In Pudica Pose

Snow White Takes a Nap After Cleaning the   113

Bathroom That She Shares with 7 People 

Snow White Receives a DM from Dopey

How to Say I Love You to a Ghost

Some Summer

Ghost Tour in Savannah, Georgia

Whose Hand Do You Hold When the Earth Ends?

After the Exorcism

After