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Abecedarian Requiring Further Examination of Anglikan Seraphym Subjugation of a Wild Indian Rezervation by Natalie Diaz
Abecedarian Requiring Further Examination of Anglikan Seraphym Subjugation of a Wild Indian Rezervation by Natalie Diaz Angels don’t...

marychristinedelea
Feb 33 min read
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My Daughter at the Gymnastics Party by David Bottoms
My Daughter at the Gymnastics Party by David Bottoms (from his 1999 book, Vagrant Grace , published by Copper Canyon Press) When I sat...

marychristinedelea
Jan 293 min read
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Five Thousand Blackbirds by Melissa Slayton
Five Thousand Blackbirds by Melissa Slayton (published in Tinge Magazine , Issue 1 ) After the death of blackbirds and drum fish in...

marychristinedelea
Jan 82 min read
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Sonnet by James Weldon Johnson
Sonnet by James Weldon Johnson My heart be brave, and do not falter so, Nor utter more that deep, despairing wail. Thy way is very...

marychristinedelea
Jan 52 min read
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It ain’t heavy, it’s my purse by Marge Piercy
It ain’t heavy, it’s my purse by Marge Piercy (published in her 1992 book, Mars and Her Children , Knopf) We have marsupial instincts,...

marychristinedelea
Jan 13 min read
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The Thing Is by Ellen Bass
The Thing Is by Ellen Bass (published in her 2002 book, Mules of Love , BOA Editions) to love life, to love it even when you have no...

marychristinedelea
Dec 29, 20242 min read
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In Praise of Mystery: A Poem for Europa by Ada Limón
In Praise of Mystery: A Poem for Europa by Ada Limón (published in The Best American Poetry 2024 , edited by Mary Jo Salter and David...

marychristinedelea
Dec 25, 20242 min read
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Without Title by Diane Glancy
Without Title for my Father who lived without ceremony by Diane Glancy (published in her 1990 book, Iron Woman , New Rivers Press)...

marychristinedelea
Dec 22, 20242 min read
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Shots by Belle Waring
Shots by Belle Waring (published in her book, Dark Blonde , 1997, Sarabande Books) Three nurses to hold him, this four-year-old who...

marychristinedelea
Dec 18, 20243 min read
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Bird Nests Used to Look More Like Fortresses by Martin Ott
Bird Nests Used to Look More Like Fortresses by Martin Ott (published in Press 53 , Issue 139, OCT-DEC 2018 ) My daughter just...

marychristinedelea
Dec 15, 20242 min read
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A Life You Might Say You Might Live by Constance Urdang
A Life You Might Say You Might Live by Constance Urdang (published in 100 Great Poems by Women , edited by Carolyn Kizer, 1995, The...

marychristinedelea
Dec 11, 20242 min read
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Curtains by Ruth Stone
Curtains by Ruth Stone (published in 100 Great Poems by Women, edited by Carolyn Kizer, 1995, Ecco Press) Putting up new curtains,...

marychristinedelea
Dec 8, 20243 min read
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Jump Cabling by Linda Pastan
Jump Cabling by Linda Pastan (published in Drive, They Said , an anthology edited by Kurt Brown, published in 1994 by Milkweed...

marychristinedelea
Dec 4, 20242 min read
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Despair by Anthony Hecht
Despair by Anthony Hecht (published in Selected Poems , edited by J. D. McClatchy, 2012, Alfred Knopf) Sadness. The moist grey shawls...

marychristinedelea
Dec 1, 20242 min read
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The Patience of Ordinary Things by Pat Schneider
The Patience of Ordinary Things by Pat Schneider (published in her 2019 book, From The Weight of Love , Negative Capability Press) It...

marychristinedelea
Nov 27, 20242 min read
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Window by Carl Sandburg
Window by Carl Sandburg Night from a railroad car window Is a great, dark, soft thing Broken across with slashes of light. I love to...

marychristinedelea
Nov 24, 20242 min read
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September 1, 1939 by W. H. Auden
September 1, 1939 by W.H. Auden I sit in one of the dives On Fifty-second Street Uncertain and afraid As the clever hopes expire Of a...

marychristinedelea
Nov 20, 20243 min read
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Holding Vigil by Alison Luterman
Holding Vigil by Alison Luterman (published in Rattle , Poets Respond, on November 3, 2024 ) My cousin asks if I can describe this...

marychristinedelea
Nov 17, 20243 min read
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Bless This School for Girls by Warsan Shire
Bless This School for Girls by Warsan Shire (published in he2022 book, Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head from...

marychristinedelea
Nov 13, 20242 min read
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Rape by Adrienne Rich
Rape by Adrienne Rich There is a cop who is both prowler and father: he comes from your block, grew up with your brothers, had certain...

marychristinedelea
Nov 10, 20243 min read
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