Work by Robert King
Work by Robert King published in Rattle, Summer 2008 The workmen over and above the fence fit bricks, lift mortar, slap it accurately in...
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marychristinedelea
- May 15, 2022
- 1 min
What Is Love If Not Rot? by Jane Wong
What Is Love If Not Rot? by Jane Wong online at the Seattle Public Library Seattle Writes web site I’ve been watching videos of rotting...
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marychristinedelea
- May 11, 2022
- 1 min
The saint takes the monster to church & the monster catches a cold by Mary Ann Clark
The saint takes the monster to church & the monster catches a cold by Mary Ann Clark published in The Scores Here is a body. There are...
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marychristinedelea
- May 8, 2022
- 1 min
Rain for Days by Diane Holland
Rain for Days by Diane Holland published in Crab Orchard Review And the sky closed, but now the TV weather radar screen shows the few...
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marychristinedelea
- May 4, 2022
- 1 min
Gaudy by Cassy Dorff
Gaudy by Cassy Dorff published in Rust+Moth, Winter 2021 The bird book called him America’s most gaudy bird. Some said the king cakes in...
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marychristinedelea
- May 1, 2022
- 1 min
May and the Poets by Leigh Hunt
May and the Poets by Leigh Hunt There is May in books forever; May will part from Spenser never; May's in Milton, May's in Prior, May's...
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marychristinedelea
- Apr 27, 2022
- 1 min
Assisted Living by J. Allyn Rosser
Assisted Living by J. Allyn Rosser published in The Atlantic They sit at tables close enough around To nudge, reach for salt, and chat...
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marychristinedelea
- Apr 24, 2022
- 1 min
Dictionary Poem by Jill McDonough
Dictionary Poem by Jill McDonough published in The Threepenny Review I love teaching people how to use a dictionary, watch them get...
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marychristinedelea
- Apr 20, 2022
- 1 min
Pluto by Grace Li
Pluto by Grace Li published in Crazyhorse Online I’m sorry. It was a minor matter. All the ways that I was here and the ways I wasn’t. A...
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marychristinedelea
- Apr 17, 2022
- 1 min
The Easter Flower by Claude McKay
The Easter Flower by Claude McKay Far from this foreign Easter damp and chilly My soul steals to a pear-shaped plot of ground, Where...
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marychristinedelea
- Apr 10, 2022
- 1 min
April by Linda Pastan
April by Linda Pastan A whole new freshman class of leaves has arrived on the dark twisted branches we call our woods, turning green...
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marychristinedelea
- Apr 6, 2022
- 1 min
Touring Cueva de las Monedas I. by Charlotte Pence
published in her book, Code (Black Lawrence Press, 2020) Caves are not caves; they are thresholds into other worlds. We enter, blink into...
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marychristinedelea
- Apr 3, 2022
- 1 min
Gnats by Ladan Osman
Gnats published in The Normal School, 2015 I can't tell why I think the dried corncobs in the gravel and the mattress under the tree were...
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marychristinedelea
- Mar 27, 2022
- 1 min
Hunger by Dianne Stepp
published in Cider Press Review Hunger by Dianne Stepp after In Memory’s Kitchen: A Legacy from the Women of Terezin They dream of yeast...
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marychristinedelea
- Mar 23, 2022
- 1 min
That First Night, the Hospital by Meg Eden
published in her book, Drowning in the Floating World (Press 53, 2020) That First Night, the Hospital was the only thing left standing....
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marychristinedelea
- Mar 20, 2022
- 1 min
Chromesthesia by Kelly R. Samuels
Chromesthesia by Kelly R. Samuels published in Summerset Review Your voice, singing, calls up green, green of the grasses bent on that...
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marychristinedelea
- Mar 16, 2022
- 1 min
anyone lived in a pretty how town by e.e. cummings
anyone lived in a pretty how town (with up so floating many bells down) spring summer autumn winter he sang his didn't he danced his did....
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marychristinedelea
- Mar 13, 2022
- 1 min
Some Assembly May Be Required by Laura LeHew
Some Assembly May Be Required by Laura LeHew published in The Fem 2016 you are in denial your eyes are hyacinth red you page through your...
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marychristinedelea
- Mar 9, 2022
- 2 min
The Colonel by Carolyn Forché
The Colonel by Carolyn Forché published in her 1981 book, The Country Between Us What you have heard is true. I was in his house. His...
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marychristinedelea
- Mar 6, 2022
- 1 min
Quaker Oats by Rita Dove
Quaker Oats by Rita Dove The grain elevators have stood empty for years. They used to feed an entire nation of children. Hunched in red...
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