Rejected Embroidery Projects by Triny Finlay
Rejected Embroidery Projects by Triny Finlay published in The/tEmz/Review, Issue 22 I stitch whimsy-careful scenes for people who don’t...
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marychristinedelea
- Jun 7
- 1 min
Little Shields, in Starlight by Carl Phillips
Little Shields, in Starlight by Carl Phillips posted in Literary Hub, 2022 Maybe there’s no need for us to go anywhere more far than...
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marychristinedelea
- Jun 4
- 1 min
Margaret's Moon by Jackie Kay
Margaret’s Moon by Jackie Kay After she died, I swear the sky Had the most beautiful of all sunsets, A blush of pink, then red, a glass...
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marychristinedelea
- May 31
- 1 min
A Red, Red Rose by Robert Burns
A Red, Red Rose by Robert Burns O my luve's like a red, red rose, That's newly sprung in June; O my luve's like the melodie That's...
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marychristinedelea
- May 28
- 1 min
Song of Myself by Walt Whitman (Section 52)
from Song of Myself by Walt Whitman 52 The spotted hawk swoops by and accuses me, he complains of my gab and my loitering. I too am not a...
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marychristinedelea
- May 24
- 1 min
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  Â
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 9
- 1 min
Spilled Sugar by Thylias Moss
Spilled Sugar by Thylias Moss I cannot forget the sugar on the table. The hand that spilled it was not that of my usual father, three...
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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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