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How the Worst Day of My Life Became the Best by Andrea Gibson
How the Worst Day of My Life Became the Best by Andrea Gibson When I realized the storm was inevitable, I made it my medicine. Took two...

marychristinedelea
2 days ago3 min read


I Won’t Be Able to Write from the Grave by Fanny Howe
I Won’t Be Able to Write from the Grave by Fanny Howe I won’t be able to write from the grave so let me tell you what I love: oil,...

marychristinedelea
5 days ago2 min read


Wild Turkeys by Richard Taylor
Wild Turkeys by Richard Taylor Rushed to reach the dentist's and scratch one more item off my list of things to do, I hurry down the...

marychristinedelea
Jul 93 min read


Sonnet to Basil by Anne Pierson Wiese
Sonnet to Basil by Anne Pierson Wiese The seeds in the packet were so tiny and dry, all fallen into the bottom fold like blue grit-- it...

marychristinedelea
Jul 63 min read


America by Tony Hoagland
America by Tony Hoagland Then one of the students with blue hair and a tongue stud Says that America is for him a maximum-security...

marychristinedelea
Jul 24 min read


Sunrise by Budd Powell Mahan
Sunrise by Budd Powell Mahan It amazes that this cosmic burst, the very fan of orange that lighted dinosaurs, ignites this...

marychristinedelea
Jun 293 min read


Sonnet XXIV by Louise Labé
Sonnet XXIV by Louise Labé Do not blame me, ladies, if I have loved, If I have felt a thousand burning torches, A thousand labors, a...

marychristinedelea
Jun 252 min read


Knoxville, Tennessee by Nikki Giovanni
Knoxville, Tennessee by Nikki Giovanni I always like summer best you can eat fresh corn from daddy's garden and okra and greens and...

marychristinedelea
Jun 222 min read


Bent to the Earth by Blas Manuel De Luna
Bent to the Earth by Blas Manuel De Luna They had hit Ruben with the high beams, had blinded him so that the van he was driving, full of...

marychristinedelea
Jun 183 min read


Counting Towards Sleep by Nance Van Winckel
Counting Toward Sleep by Nance Van Winckel From each corner the grey cranes appear and, as if wingless, march off like old soldiers,...

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Jun 153 min read


Tomatoes of Kobarid by Christina Cook
Tomatoes of Kobari by Christina Cook Many of the Italian soldiers who died in the World War I Battle of Caporetto, near present- day...

marychristinedelea
Jun 114 min read
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For the Graduation [Bolinas School, June 11, 1971] by Robert Creeley
For the Graduation [Bolinas School, June 11, 1971] by Robert Creeley for Sarah Pretension has it you can't get back what's gone by....

marychristinedelea
Jun 82 min read


The Traveling Onion by Naomi Shihab Nye
The Traveling Onion by Naomi Shihab Nye “It is believed that the onion originally came from India. In Egypt it was an object of...

marychristinedelea
Jun 43 min read


White Sands by Arthur Sze
White Sands by Arthur Sze --Walking along a ridge of white sand-- it's cooler below the...

marychristinedelea
Jun 13 min read


The Hunter in the Snow by William Carlos Williams
The Hunter in the Snow by William Carlos Williams The over-all picture is winter icy mountains in the background the return from the...

marychristinedelea
May 283 min read


Ode to the Tiniest Dessert Spoon in All Creation by Karen An-Hwei Lee
Ode to the Tiniest Dessert Spoon in All Creation by Karen An-Hwei Lee In a new translator’s version of Genesis, there’s no Adam. No...

marychristinedelea
May 253 min read


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...

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May 213 min read


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
May 182 min read


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


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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