Arizona by Kaitlyn McNab
Arizona by Kaitlyn McNab (published in Electric Lit, Issue 171, 2021) I want to be whisked away to Arizona and kissed in the depression...
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marychristinedelea
- 4 days ago
- 1 min
Poems I Probably Won’t Write About My Stepfather by Jennifer Stewart Miller
Poems I Probably Won’t Write About My Stepfather by Jennifer Stewart Miller (published in Crab Creek Review, March 25, 2021) On Holding...
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marychristinedelea
- Nov 29
- 1 min
Thanks by W.S. Merwin
Thanks by W.S. Merwin published in Migration: New and Selected Poems (Copper Canyon Press, 2005) Listen with the night falling we are...
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marychristinedelea
- Nov 26
- 1 min
(The Mothman Leaves the Used Car Lot Empty-Handed) by Robert Wood Lynn
(The Mothman Leaves the Used Car Lot Empty-Handed) by Robert Wood Lynn published in his book, Mothman Apologia, from Yale University...
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marychristinedelea
- Nov 22
- 1 min
Thanksgiving by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Thanksgiving by Ella Wheeler Wilcox We walk on starry fields of white And do not see the daisies; For blessings common in our sight We...
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marychristinedelea
- Nov 15
- 1 min
Butsuma by Bern Mulvey
Butsuma by Bern Mulvey (published in his 2008 book, The Fat Sheep Everyone Wants, CSU Press) Time to meet the relatives, only they’re...
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marychristinedelea
- Nov 12
- 1 min
A Drink with Something In It by Ogden Nash
A Drink with Something In It by Ogden Nash There is something about a Martini, A tingle remarkably pleasant; A yellow, a mellow Martini;...
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marychristinedelea
- Nov 8
- 1 min
Enough by Suzanne Buffam
Enough by Suzanne Buffam (from her 2010 book, The Irrationalist, published by Canarium Book) I am wearing dark glasses inside the house...
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marychristinedelea
- Nov 5
- 1 min
Aubade with Ravens by Jessica Lynn Suchon
Aubade with Ravens by Jessica Lynn Suchon (published in Pinch, Fall 2019) When you sleep, the moon plucks hurt from my palm like a loose...
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marychristinedelea
- Nov 1
- 1 min
Across Wyoming by Kari Despain
Across Wyoming by Kari Despain (published in Rockvale Review, November 2019) driving for dawn, a wind storm shaking the November...
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marychristinedelea
- Oct 29
- 1 min
Scars by Truing Tran
Scars by Truing Tran (published in North Dakota Quarterly, Summer 1993) My father’s body is a map, a record of his journey. He carries a...
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marychristinedelea
- Oct 22
- 1 min
Sunday Morning, Cumberland Gap
 by A.E. Stringer

Sunday Morning, Cumberland Gap by A.E. Stringer published in Still, Summer 2015 Black cat appears under my roadside picnic table....
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marychristinedelea
- Oct 18
- 1 min
Autumn by Siegfried Sassoon
Autumn by Siegfried Sassoon October's bellowing anger breaks and cleaves The bronzed battalions of the stricken wood In whose lament I...
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marychristinedelea
- Oct 15
- 1 min
Autumnal by Louise Glück
Autumnal by Louise Glück (from her 1976 book, Descending Figure, The Ecco Press, NY) Public sorrow, the acquired gold of the leaf, the...
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marychristinedelea
- Oct 11
- 1 min
October by Robert Frost
October by Robert Frost O hushed October morning mild, Thy leaves have ripened to the fall; Tomorrow’s wind, if it be wild, Should waste...
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marychristinedelea
- Oct 8
- 1 min
Middle-Aged Karaoke 
by Timothy Houghton
Middle-Aged Karaoke by Timothy Houghton Published in SNReview, Spring/Summer 2008 A big woman jumps out of a booth deftly, avoiding...
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marychristinedelea
- Oct 4
- 1 min
The Fury of Beautiful Bones by Anne Sexton
The Fury of Beautiful Bones by Anne Sexton (from The Complete Poems, Houghton Mifflin, 1982) Sing me a thrush, bone. Sing me a nest of...
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marychristinedelea
- Oct 1
- 1 min
Storm Ending by Jean Toomer
Storm Ending by Jean Toomer (from his 1923 poetic novel, Cane) Thunder blossoms gorgeously above our heads, Great, hollow, bell-like...
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marychristinedelea
- Sep 27
- 1 min
A Dirge Melody: Don’t Let the Humans Know We Contain Souls by Elizabeth Upshur
A Dirge Melody: Don’t Let the Humans Know We Contain Souls by Elizabeth Upshur published in Mistake House (2017) If you want the pearl...
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marychristinedelea
- Sep 24
- 2 min
Shirt by Robert Pinsky
Shirt by Robert Pinsky (published in his book, The Want Bone) The back, the yoke, the yardage. Lapped seams, The nearly invisible...
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