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Dusting by Rita Dove
Dusting by Rita Dove Every day a wilderness—no shade in sight. Beulah patient among knicknacks, the solarium a rage of light, a...

marychristinedelea
15 minutes ago3 min read
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God moves in mysterious ways. by Michelle Lizet Flores
I knelt for my mother at the altar. I was not greedy, never asked for a miracle. I just wanted God to give her strength and rest. Four...

marychristinedelea
3 days ago2 min read
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Ode to the Pollo Asado Burritos from Alberto’s Tacos by Jose Hernandez Diaz
Ode to the Pollo Asado Burritos from Alberto’s Tacos by Jose Hernandez Diaz I am faithful to you. Faithful, like the sun and moon. I...

marychristinedelea
May 143 min read
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Maintaining the Species by Deborah Burnham
Maintaining the Species by Deborah Burnham In the zoo's glass room, two dozen warblers from New Guinea hop and preen. They're ten...

marychristinedelea
May 113 min read
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And Now, Some Good News by Tristan Tuttle
And Now, Some Good News by Tristan Tuttle a cardinal lands in the trumpet vine — he whistles / a dog wearing goggles sits atop a...

marychristinedelea
May 73 min read
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Portrait of Girl with Comic Book by Phyllis McGinley
Portrait of Girl with Comic Book by Phyllis McGinley Thirteen’s no age at all. Thirteen is nothing. It is not wit, or powder on the...

marychristinedelea
May 43 min read
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Anxieties by Donna Masini
Anxieties by Donna Masini It’s like ants and more ants. West, east their little axes hack and tease. Your sins. Your back taxes. This is...

marychristinedelea
Apr 302 min read
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Spring Has Sprung by Anonymous
Spring Has Sprung by Anonymous Spring has sprung, The grass has riz, I wonder where the birdies is. They say the birdy's on the wing....

marychristinedelea
Apr 271 min read
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Amaryllis by Jessica Lamb
Amaryllis by Jessica Lamb I brought it home to find a blossom already come and gone in the dark box. The petals were slippery and stank...

marychristinedelea
Apr 232 min read
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When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd by Walt Whitman
When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd by Walt Whitman 1 When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom’d, And the great star early droop’d in...

marychristinedelea
Apr 2010 min read
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The Wild Horses of Chernobyl by Martha Silano
The Wild Horses of Chernobyl by Martha Silano I can’t stop thinking about the wild horses of Chernobyl, keep going back to the sepia...

marychristinedelea
Apr 162 min read
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Sonnet by Alice Notley
Sonnet by Alice Notley The late Gracie Allen was a very lucid comedienne, Especially in the way that lucid means shining and bright....

marychristinedelea
Apr 133 min read
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Midwest by Paula Bonnell
Midwest by Paula Bonnell My heart is like Chicago’s Union Station. Once it was full of a thunder of arrivals, departures. In the gusty...

marychristinedelea
Apr 93 min read
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In Praise of Ice Cream Vending Machines at a Greyhound Bus Station by Aimee Nezhukumatathil
In Praise of Ice Cream Vending Machines at a Greyhound Bus Station by Aimee Nezhukumatathil All the buttons promise ...

marychristinedelea
Apr 63 min read
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Spring by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Spring by Edna St. Vincent Millay To what purpose, April, do you return again? Beauty is not enough. You can no longer quiet me with the...

marychristinedelea
Apr 22 min read
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The Bean Eaters by Gwendolyn Brooks
The Bean Eaters by Gwendolyn Brooks They eat beans mostly, this old yellow pair. Dinner is a casual affair. Plain chipware on a plain...

marychristinedelea
Mar 303 min read
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Self-Portrait Poem That Is Also a Study by Fabienne Josaphat
Self-Portrait Poem That Is Also a Study by Fabienne Josaphat I see myself in her in photos, and see her in myself. Lately it seems I see...

marychristinedelea
Mar 263 min read
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Planetarium by Adrienne Rich
Planetarium by Adrienne Rich Thinking of Caroline Herschel (1750—1848) astronomer, sister of William; and others. A woman in the...

marychristinedelea
Mar 233 min read
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There will come soft rains (War Time) by Sara Teasdale
There will come soft rains (War Time) by Sara Teasdale There will come soft rains and the smell of the ground, And swallows circling...

marychristinedelea
Mar 192 min read
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Crossroads by Joyce Sutphen
Crossroads by Joyce Sutphen The second half of my life will be black to the white rind of the old and fading moon. The second half of my...

marychristinedelea
Mar 163 min read
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