Recuerdo by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Recuerdo by Edna St. Vincent Millay We were very tired, we were very merry— We had gone back and forth all night on the ferry. It was...
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marychristinedelea
- Nov 6, 2022
- 1 min
Why I Have a Crush On You, UPS Man by Alice N. Persons
Why I Have a Crush On You, UPS Man by Alice N. Persons published in her book, Don't Be A Stranger you bring me all the things I order are...
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marychristinedelea
- Nov 2, 2022
- 2 min
The Mother Writes to the Murderer: A Letter by Naomi Shihab Nye
The Mother Writes to the Murderer: A Letter byNaomi Shihab Nye To you whose brain is a blunt fist pushed deep inside your skull whose...
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marychristinedelea
- Oct 30, 2022
- 1 min
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
- Oct 2, 2022
- 1 min
On the Turning of the Year by Karen An-Hwei Lee
On the Turning of the Year by Karen An-Hwei Lee published in Spoon River Poetry Review, Issue 43.2, Winter 2018 To witness five...
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marychristinedelea
- Sep 28, 2022
- 1 min
The Lake Isle of Innisfree By W. B. Yeats
The Lake Isle of Innisfree by William Butler Yeats I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree, And a small cabin build there, of clay...
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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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