Theme in Yellow by Carl Sandburg
Theme in Yellow by Carl Sandburg I spot the hills With yellow balls in autumn. I light the prairie cornfields Orange and tawny gold...
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marychristinedelea
- Oct 26, 2022
- 1 min
The Survivor by Primo Levi
The Survivor by Primo Levi Once more he sees his companions' faces Livid in the first faint light, Gray with cement dust, Nebulous in the...
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marychristinedelea
- Oct 23, 2022
- 1 min
What Haunts Us by Annie Phan
What Haunts Us by Annie Phan published in Rust & Moth, Autumn 2020 In the villages of my grandmother, they warn you of the child who...
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marychristinedelea
- Oct 19, 2022
- 1 min
Plums by Gillian Clarke
Plums by Gillian Clarke When their time comes they fall without wind, without rain. They seep through the trees’ muslin in a slow...
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marychristinedelea
- Oct 16, 2022
- 1 min
To the Young Who Want to Die by Gwendolyn Brooks
To the Young Who Want to Die by Gwendolyn Brooks Sit down. Inhale. Exhale. The gun will wait. The lake will wait. The tall gall in the...
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marychristinedelea
- Oct 12, 2022
- 1 min
About Almonds and Ambergris by Lorna Goodison
About Almonds and Ambergris by Lorna Goodison Atlanta Review, Spring/Summer 2019 issue There is a perfume rising off the sea today. A...
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marychristinedelea
- Oct 9, 2022
- 1 min
Residual Memory of Mercy by Nicole Rollender
Residual Memory of Mercy by Nicole Rollender published in typishly Everything is the hopesprung phantom of something else. I married that...
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marychristinedelea
- Oct 5, 2022
- 1 min
Rural Gothic by Despy Boutris
Rural Gothic by Despy Boutris published in Zócalo Public Square, April 16, 2021 Loneliness thick as the fields of wheat. Wheat I walk...
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marychristinedelea
- Sep 25, 2022
- 2 min
Feed My People (The Toxicology Prayer) by Cedric Tillman
Feed My People (The Toxicology Prayer) by Cedric Tillman published in RHINO (won 2nd prize in the 2021 Editor's Prize contest) Father we...
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marychristinedelea
- Sep 21, 2022
- 1 min
Daughter Mined With Mercury by Shagufta Mulla
Daughter Mined With Mercury by Shagufta Mulla published in Blood Orange Review, 2021 (Contest Winner) You painted me in shadowy stripes...
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marychristinedelea
- Sep 18, 2022
- 1 min
September Tomatoes by Karina Borowicz
September Tomatoes by Karina Borowicz published in Ecotone, Issue 15 The whiskey stink of rot has settled in the garden, and a burst of...
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marychristinedelea
- Sep 14, 2022
- 2 min
My Sex Life by Diane Seuss
My Sex Life by Diane Seuss published in Rattle, #16, Winter 2001: Tribute to Boomer Girls Having a threesome with Jack Daniels and Billie...
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marychristinedelea
- Sep 11, 2022
- 1 min
Kia Writes the Microwaves by Jeremy Downes
Kia Writes the Microwaves by Jeremy Downes Kia writes the microwaves sizzling yesterday’s browned grief; Kia reads the manuals, finds the...
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marychristinedelea
- Sep 7, 2022
- 1 min
Same Wording: English Spelling vs. Chinese Syntax by Yuan Changming
Same Wording: English Spelling vs. Chinese Syntax by Yuan Changming published in The HitchLit Review, Vol 3, Issue 2, Autumn 2020 钱是没有问题...
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marychristinedelea
- Sep 4, 2022
- 1 min
Delphiniums in a Window Box by Dean Young
Delphiniums in a Window Box by Dean Young (1955-2022) Every sunrise, sometimes strangers’ eyes. Not necessarily swans, even crows, even...
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marychristinedelea
- Aug 31, 2022
- 1 min
What I Wanted by Margaret Chula
published in Cordella Magazine, Issue 7 What I Wanted by Margaret Chula All my life, I wanted to ride bareback on a tiger through the...
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marychristinedelea
- Aug 28, 2022
- 1 min
Love Letter to a Dead Body by Jake Skeets
Love Letter to a Dead Body by Jake Skeets published in Boston Review, 2018 we lay each other down in the burr and sage bottles jangle us...
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marychristinedelea
- Aug 24, 2022
- 1 min
Forget-Me-Nots by Megan Merchant
Forget-Me-Nots by Megan Merchant published in Breakwater, Issue 23 Today, my mother forgot the word for bathroom while she was in one....
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marychristinedelea
- Aug 21, 2022
- 1 min
Marry Me by Lindsey Webb
Marry Me by Lindsey Webb; published in Jellyfish Magazine, 2015 I am like a flower that won't stop opening and closing. I scare all the...
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marychristinedelea
- Aug 17, 2022
- 1 min
The Sciences Sing a Lullabye by Albert Goldbarth
The Sciences Sing a Lullabye by Albert Goldbarth published in his book, The Kitchen Sink: New and Selected Poems, 1972-2007 Physics...
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