When We Became Trees by Mary Christine Kane
published in Ponder Review, Spring 2017, Volume 1, Issue 1 When We Became Trees by Mary Christine Kane We saw them first on our walk....
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marychristinedelea
- Jan 30, 2022
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Count Down by Robin Morgan
Count Down by Robin Morgan Survival is the final offer that arrives at the eleventh hour just when pain to the tenth power would kill you...
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marychristinedelea
- Jan 26, 2022
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Wildlife by Heather Treseler
Wildlife by Heather Treseler winner, 2021 WB Yeats Society Contest All strut and gibbering, wattles and caruncles, tom turkeys parade at...
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marychristinedelea
- Jan 23, 2022
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The Fall of the House of Usher by Reed Whittemore
published in A Geography of Poets, Edited by Edward Field The Fall of the House of Usher by Reed Whittemore It was a big boxy wreck of a...
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marychristinedelea
- Jan 20, 2022
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Winter In Another Country by Ai
published in Poetry, March 1980 I was born in Cologne. That word again: Cologne. I let my mouth fill with it as my mother did when the...
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marychristinedelea
- Jan 16, 2022
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Temptation of the Composer by Airea D. Matthews
published in Simulacra, winner of the 2016 Yale Series of Younger Poets Temptation of the Composer by Airea D. Matthews Oh Shepherd, our...
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marychristinedelea
- Jan 12, 2022
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Father’s Memory of a Mexican Mining Camp by Cindy Williams Gutiérrez
Father’s Memory of a Mexican Mining Camp by Cindy Williams Gutiérrez from The Small Claim of Bones, 2014 Softly, it always began softly....
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marychristinedelea
- Jan 9, 2022
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Decency by Emily Jungmin Yoon
published in The Paris Review, Issue 227, Winter 2018 Decency by Emily Jungmin Yoon When a man threw his fist into a wall next to my eye...
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marychristinedelea
- Jan 5, 2022
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The Sun Never Pointed Out That Metal Piece by Ayesha Asad
published in Kissing Dynamite Poetry, Issue 26, FEB 2021 His beard was stained straw, smoked by desert wind & lipped by sand. His...
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marychristinedelea
- Jan 2, 2022
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Breaking Down in the South by Gail White
Breaking Down in the South by Gail White It knocked me over to learn there’s no such thing as a nervous breakdown. My aunts and uncles...
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marychristinedelea
- Dec 30, 2021
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Plague Victims Catapulted Over Walls Into Besieged City by Thomas Lux
Plague Victims Catapulted Over Walls Into Besieged City by Thomas Lux Early germ warfare. The dead hurled this way look like wheels in...
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marychristinedelea
- Dec 26, 2021
- 1 min
A Happy Birthday by Ted Kooser
A Happy Birthday by Ted Kooser This evening, I sat by an open window and read till the light was gone and the book was no more than a...
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marychristinedelea
- Dec 22, 2021
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AAA Vacation Guide by Ernest Hilbert
“Philadelphia isn’t as bad as Philadelphians say it is.” —Billboard on Interstate 95 Paris in the Spring, Autumn in New York, Singers...
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marychristinedelea
- Dec 19, 2021
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Open your almonds slowly by Jessica Brown
Open your almonds slowly by Jessica Brown published in Honest Ulsterman, June 2018 The air is so still I worry something bad is Coming as...
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marychristinedelea
- Dec 15, 2021
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Anderson Inside the Hurricane by Stefi Weisburd
published in New Ohio Review, Issue 4, Fall 2008 Anderson Inside the Hurricane by Stefi Weisburd The wind has come to remind us of our...
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marychristinedelea
- Dec 12, 2021
- 1 min
Prairie Work by Susan Niz
Prairie Work by Susan Niz published in Ponder Review, Volume 2, Issue 2, Fall 2018 I walk fatly through field Like a freckled,...
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marychristinedelea
- Dec 8, 2021
- 1 min
We Lived Happily During the War by Ilya Kaminsky
We Lived Happily During the War by Ilya Kaminsky from the book, Deaf Republic, published by Graywolf Press, 2019 And when they bombed...
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marychristinedelea
- Dec 5, 2021
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soil by Irène P. Mathieu
soil by Irène P. Mathieu from the book orogeny, 2016 Bob Kaufman Prize, Trembling Pillow Press the way you say soil sounds like soul, as...
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marychristinedelea
- Dec 1, 2021
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Winter Trees by William Carlos Williams
Winter Trees by William Carlos Williams All the complicated details of the attiring and the disattiring are completed! A liquid moon...
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marychristinedelea
- Nov 28, 2021
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Coyote Night by Adrian C. Louis
Coyote Night Adrian C. Louis A flat tire ten miles east of Pine Ridge just past the Wounded Knee turnoff. I disembark into Siberia...
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