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Marías at Sampaguitas
Jan 8, 20201 min read
Poetry by Christine Fojas
selkie skinless, I am tethered in your arms never whole never an equal kept here by your love for my fractioned self not all of me not...
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Marías at Sampaguitas
Dec 22, 20191 min read
Poetry by Nashira
diasporache I looked for my family, but I could only find one atrocity after another. we must be born casualties— early marriages &...
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Marías at Sampaguitas
Dec 22, 20191 min read
Poetry by Marlena Dominique Chiles
There’s an ache inside my chest There’s an ache inside my chest It tightens up, and gives no rest I gasp for air, there’s never enough...
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Marías at Sampaguitas
Dec 22, 20191 min read
Poetry by Marlena Dominique Chiles
You feel like home. Everything feels right with you vs when I’m alone. Comfort when I fall asleep by your side With you I never feel the...
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Marías at Sampaguitas
Dec 21, 20191 min read
Poetry by Marlena Dominique Chiles
Gnawing at my chest It cannot seem to rest The pounding of my heart Forced from its love, to part Even if it broke free The meet would...
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Marías at Sampaguitas
Dec 16, 20191 min read
Poetry by Juliette Sebock
Retina I capture an image in my mind and there's no way in hell I'll capture it with pen on paper, Crayola markers and the...
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Marías at Sampaguitas
Dec 16, 20191 min read
Poetry by Shreyaa Tandel
Bloodstream The wrong and right Battle again As the wrong races To win nothing.. Heads broken Eyes, knees, Elbows, shoulders You name it;...
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Marías at Sampaguitas
Dec 14, 20191 min read
Poetry by Emily Craig
“My Chapter” Closing old feelings is oh so hard, opening up to new ones is even scarier. I’m taking that step – a step towards me. I’ve...
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Marías at Sampaguitas
Dec 12, 20191 min read
Poetry by Christine Fojas
Dahlias: the Art of Withering after Edward Peck’s Mingus’ Summertime III Worn petals rumpled linen sheets on my bed, scattered with...
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Marías at Sampaguitas
Dec 12, 20191 min read
Poem by Lynne Schmidt
Simmer I've played with matches long enough you'd think I knew better. Instead I grabbed a hold of you, and with enough force to eat an...
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Marías at Sampaguitas
Dec 6, 20191 min read
Poetry by Persephone Kirkland Delatte
Orange Trees we sit under a pavilion in summer, and even the air is as lazy as we are. the fish in the pond flick their tails, idly,...
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Marías at Sampaguitas
Dec 5, 20191 min read
Poetry by Persephone Kirkland Delatte
With Laurels in Her Hair My friend and I knock knees, tangled up on her couch, fingers intertwined, and I choose to love her. There’s a...
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Marías at Sampaguitas
Dec 5, 20191 min read
Poetry by Persephone Kirkland Delatte
Popsicle I melt like a popsicle in the summer sun sweet and colorful in a watermelon swimsuit not the gangly preteen I wished to be, but...
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Marías at Sampaguitas
Nov 25, 20191 min read
Poetry by Venus Davis
Shades of Blue Summer started off teal and murky, like the water that makes up a lake. Then, pretty boy touched my hand and Tiffany blue...
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Marías at Sampaguitas
Nov 23, 20191 min read
Poetry by Grace Beilstein
Not My Father, Only in His Shoes he bobs his head to the curving of the road, watching ravenous tires eat into melting miles of asphalt....
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Marías at Sampaguitas
Nov 17, 20191 min read
Poetry by Emily Craig
“Closing Our Chapter” You shattered my heart more than the ones before. I thought I had felt love before but I was wrong. Getting lost in...
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Marías at Sampaguitas
Nov 17, 20191 min read
Poetry by Tucker Lieberman
if it begins to hurt if nothing is hurting you and you are free, if the sun is shining and the car was given to you and the gasoline is...
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Marías at Sampaguitas
Nov 17, 20191 min read
Poetry by Emily Craig
“Closing Our Chapter” You shattered my heart more than the ones before. I thought I had felt love but I was wrong. Getting lost in the...
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Marías at Sampaguitas
Nov 17, 20191 min read
Poetry by April Frances Federico
The Carrie Bradshaw Theory Carrie Bradshaw said women come to New York in search of “labels and love—” Why can’t they go any place in the...
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Marías at Sampaguitas
Nov 17, 20191 min read
Poetry by Christine Fojas
The Day You Leave Me Dark spots bloom on my dress as the skies open the day you leave me. I reach up to catch the flowers thrown by god...
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