Even the Rain by Agha Shahid Ali
Even the Rain by Agha Shahid Ali from his book Call Me Ishmael Tonight (Norton, 2003) What will suffice for a true-love knot? Even the...
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marychristinedelea
Mar 1, 20231 min
What I Learned by R. Erica Doyle
What I learned by R. Erica Doyle published in The Rumpus, April 22, 2022 Why was there even An axe in the house there were thorns to...
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marychristinedelea
Feb 26, 20231 min
Silver Falls by Melody Wilson
Silver Falls by Melody Wilson published in Cleaver Magazine, 2021 We have driven east this bright afternoon, the two of us, young parents...
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marychristinedelea
Feb 22, 20232 min
So Chinese Girl by Dorothy Chan
So Chinese Girl by Dorothy Chan published in The Cincinnati Review, 2018 Anyone who makes tasty food has to be a good person, because...
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marychristinedelea
Feb 19, 20231 min
What I Mean When I Say Truck Driver by Geffrey Davis
What I Mean When I Say Truck Driver by Geffrey Davis published in Revising the Storm (2014, BOA Editions) During the last 50 miles back...
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marychristinedelea
Feb 18, 20231 min
February by Bill Christophersen
February by Bill Christophersen published in Poetry, February 2002 The cold grows colder, even as the days grow longer, February's...
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marychristinedelea
Feb 12, 20231 min
Ode to the Midwest by Kevin Young
Ode to the Midwest by Kevin Young published in Poetry, July/August 2007 The country I come from Is called the Midwest —Bob Dylan I...
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marychristinedelea
Feb 8, 20231 min
History Lesson by Natasha Tretheway
History Lesson by Natasha Tretheway published in Domestic Work (2000, Graywolf Press) I am four in this photograph, standing on a wide...
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marychristinedelea
Feb 5, 20231 min
How It Happened by Chelsea Rathburn
How It Happened by Chelsea Rathburn published in New Ohio Review, 2011, republished at Verse Daily I blame that little village in Spain,...
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marychristinedelea
Feb 1, 20231 min
If a Plane Crashed Exactly on the U.S.-Canadian Border by Jeff Mock
If a Plane Crashed Exactly on the U.S.-Canadian Border, in Which Country Would They Bury the Survivors? by Jeff Mock —for Margot...
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marychristinedelea
Jan 29, 20231 min
About Face by Alice Fulton
About Face by Alice Fulton published in her book, Sensual Math (1995) Because life's too short to blush, I keep my blood tucked in. I...
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marychristinedelea
Jan 25, 20231 min
Morning Prayer with Rat King by Kaveh Akbar
Morning Prayer with Rat King by Kaveh Akbar published in Poetry, March 2018 gravity accounts for the distance between weight and mass it...
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marychristinedelea
Jan 22, 20231 min
Daughter I am saying things to you by Amy Schmitz
Daughter I am saying things to you by Amy Schmitz published in Kestrel, Fall 2016 like sand seed storage like always have something to...
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marychristinedelea
Jan 18, 20231 min
Collective Nouns for Humans in the Wild by Kathy Fish
Collective Nouns for Humans in the Wild by Kathy Fish published in Jellyfish Review, 2017 A group of grandmothers is a tapestry. A group...
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marychristinedelea
Jan 15, 20233 min
There Is a Street Named for Martin Luther King, Jr. In Every City by Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib
There Is a Street Named for Martin Luther King, Jr. In Every City by Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib For Joe Bart especially the ones where blood...
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marychristinedelea
Jan 11, 20232 min
Elegy with Apples, Pomegranates, Bees by Hayan Charara
Elegy with Apples, Pomegranates, Bees, Butterflies, Thorn Bushes, Oak, Pine, Warblers, Crows, Ants, and Worms by Hayan Charara published...
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marychristinedelea
Jan 8, 20231 min
A Spine Moving by Karen Braucher
A Spine Moving by Karen Braucher for Dr. Jocelyn Kirnak published in Caveat Lector In this poem there will not be a looming, joking...
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marychristinedelea
Jan 1, 20231 min
At the South End of Lake Whatcom by Richard Widerkehr
At the South End of Lake Whatcom by Richard Widerkehr published in Sweet Tree Review, Winter 2017 At night the lake looks closer, and...
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marychristinedelea
Dec 28, 20221 min
Capitalism by Elaine Fowler Palencia
Capitalism by Elaine Fowler Palencia published in Rattle, August 18, 2021 Along the two-lane blacktops of my childhood we stopped to buy...
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marychristinedelea
Dec 25, 20221 min
Christmas, 1970 by Sandra M. Castillo
Christmas, 1970 by Sandra M. Castillo published in her book, My Father Sings, to My Embarrassment, White Pine Press We assemble the...
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