One Reason I Like Opera by Marge Piercy
One Reason I Like Opera by Marge Piercy from her book Colors Passing Through Us: Poems, 2004 (and here) In movies, you can tell the...
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marychristinedelea
- May 21
- 1 min
Everything We Don’t Want Them to Know by Maria Mazziotti Gillan
Everything We Don’t Want Them to Know by Maria Mazziotti Gillan published in her 2010 book, What We Pass On At eleven, my granddaughter...
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marychristinedelea
- May 17
- 1 min
What She Was Wearing by Denver Butson
What She Was Wearing by Denver Butson published in his 2004 book, illegible address (Luquer Street Press) this is my suicide dress she...
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marychristinedelea
- May 14
- 2 min
My First Weeks by Sharon Olds
My First Weeks by Sharon Olds Sometimes, when I wonder what I’m like, underneath, I think of my first two weeks, I was drenched with...
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marychristinedelea
- May 10
- 1 min
A Readymade by Lucia Perillo
A Readymade by Lucia Perillo Out of nowhere the phone rings, and the voice of a fat man answers: Hell-low bay-bee . . . each syllable its...
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marychristinedelea
- May 7
- 1 min
The Stars Around the Beautiful Moon by Sappho
The stars around the beautiful moon by Sappho The stars around the beautiful moon Hiding their glittering forms Whenever she shines full...
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marychristinedelea
- May 3
- 1 min
Seedlings by Margaret Rozga
Seedlings by Margaret Rozga pubished in Whale Road Review, Issue 26, 2022 First, water the seedlings. Yes, even before coffee, before...
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marychristinedelea
- Apr 30
- 1 min
End of April by Phillis Levin
End of April by Phillis Levin published in Poetry 180, edited by Billy Collins (and posted here) Under a cherry tree I found a robin’s...
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marychristinedelea
- Apr 26
- 1 min
Lower Mathematics by Judy Brackett
Lower Mathematics by Judy Brackett published in Commonweal Magazine, January 2021 The little boy shouts "To infinity and beyond!" and...
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marychristinedelea
- Apr 23
- 1 min
Sonnet 130 by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 130 by William Shakespeare My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips' red; If snow be white,...
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marychristinedelea
- Apr 19
- 1 min
Shakespearean Sonnet by R.S. Gwynn
Shakespearean Sonnet by R.S. Gwynn With a first line taken from the tv listings A man is haunted by his father's ghost. Boy meets girl...
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marychristinedelea
- Apr 16
- 2 min
Rolling Naked in the Morning Dew by Pattiann Rogers
Rolling Naked in the Morning Dew by Pattiann Rogers published in her book, Splitting and Binding, and in Orion Magazine Out among the wet...
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marychristinedelea
- Apr 12
- 1 min
the way and the way things are by nila northSun
the way and the way things are by nila northSun gramma thinks about her grandchildren they’re losing the ways don’t know how to talk...
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marychristinedelea
- Apr 5
- 1 min
The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner by Randall Jarrell
The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner by Randall Jarrell From my mother's sleep I fell into the State, And I hunched in its belly till my...
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marychristinedelea
- Apr 2
- 1 min
From the Index To Breaking Up For Dummies by Philip Memmer
From the Index To Breaking Up For Dummies by Philip Memmer published in his chapbook Greatest Hits #262 (Pudding House Press) A abandoned...
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marychristinedelea
- Mar 29
- 2 min
At the Holocaust Museum by Alice Friman
At the Holocaust Museum December 1999 by Alice Friman Like Dante, we too are led down. The elevator that swooped us up and spewed us out,...
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marychristinedelea
- Mar 26
- 1 min
In Praise of the Insects that Remain Hidden in the Grass by J. Estanislao Lopez
In Praise of the Insects that Remain Hidden in the Grass by J. Estanislao Lopez published in LEON Literary Review, Issue #18: Poetry,...
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marychristinedelea
- Mar 22
- 1 min
Greta by Marjorie Power
Greta by Marjorie Power —after hearing Greta Thunberg’s speech at the U.N., 9/23/19 She’s a lungful of cold clean air in a foul-smelling...
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marychristinedelea
- Mar 19
- 1 min
True Love by Robert Penn Warren
True Love by Robert Penn Warren In silence the heart raves.It utters words Meaningless, that never had A meaning. I was ten, skinny,...
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marychristinedelea
- Mar 15
- 1 min
Quarantine by Eavan Boland
Quarantine by Eavan Boland published in her 2001 book, Code In the worst hour of the worst season of the worst year of a whole people a...
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