Marías at Sampaguitas
Poetry by Isabel Angeles
PANGAKO Pangako: (n.) Tagalog for ‘promise’. The colonizer’s favorite color is narcissus white. Selfishly stab the point of a pole into a...
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Marías at Sampaguitas
Nov 12, 20191 min read
Poetry by Isabel Angeles
LOVESICK you tell yourself that you are immune to silver-tongued boys and their vanilla prose, but you still read them like they are...
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Marías at Sampaguitas
Nov 12, 20192 min read
Poetry by Aditya Shankar
Sofa at the Eatery For the sofa at the eatery, all are equal. How law of the land is supposed to be, love of the land is supposed to be....
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Marías at Sampaguitas
Nov 12, 20191 min read
Poetry by Stephen Mead
The Small Steps toward Ascension Heaven is a sandbox. Shovel such grains. Malleable, malleable: A castle scooped compels the pulse of...
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Marías at Sampaguitas
Nov 12, 20191 min read
Poetry by Siddhartha P. Nigam
Space Cake Weightless, floating away in uninterrupted time Living life in moments as they come my way Travelling in space and counting...
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Marías at Sampaguitas
Nov 3, 20191 min read
Poem by John Grey
YOUR JOURNEY MAN I figured there was a way to get to you. With my inner GPS. My natural farm-fed Mapquest. I was like this compass in...
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Marías at Sampaguitas
Nov 3, 20191 min read
Poem by Richard LeDue
Worth Remembering Why are we fascinated by lost battles, especially those with Nazis? They were experts at pain, even when they shot at...
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Marías at Sampaguitas
Nov 3, 20191 min read
Poem by Andrew Shields
This One's On The House The gutters are clean, since the rain ended. The sky clears at dawn. There was a fight; people said things they...
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Marías at Sampaguitas
Nov 3, 20191 min read
Poem by Tricia Lopez
Nicaragua It’s all about water here, but I can’t drink it, not even if it’s burned over the stove. Rain burns too, and feels like gel,...
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Marías at Sampaguitas
Nov 3, 20191 min read
Poem by Nashira Rose
grief of my griefs I had a dream where I went to where you’re resting now & every crevice in the cemetery was filled with sand. I...
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Marías at Sampaguitas
Nov 3, 20191 min read
Poem by Aspen Duscha
Bridge Bridge beheld, Flowing to the verdant meadow Flowerful, Fading Where I was buried Lost in a universe within an embrace, Seeking...
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Marías at Sampaguitas
Nov 3, 20191 min read
Poem by Christine Fojas
walking home after a poetry reading after Cats Musings poetry reading at New West past houses like sleeping faces beside shadowed trees...
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Marías at Sampaguitas
Oct 30, 20191 min read
Poem by Paul Robert Mullen
reasons for sharing then the drums begin in the square horns // merriment i look around for someone to smile at // with ...
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Marías at Sampaguitas
Oct 22, 20191 min read
Poem by Christine Fojas
AMBIVALENT IMMIGRANT read me forwards and backwards I am happy to be here a too-simple truth I swallow guilt useless to crumple and throw...
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Marías at Sampaguitas
Oct 20, 20192 min read
Poem by April Frances Federico
Does this Darkness have a name? Each minute, this Darkness swallows women and men alike Each minute, these twenty-four human beings are...
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Marías at Sampaguitas
Oct 11, 20191 min read
Poem by Shreyaa Tandel
Inkles The inkles Behind the wattle And concertina The blood And the dead roads The brown ice Thawing and grimey The pine cones hanged to...
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Marías at Sampaguitas
Oct 1, 20191 min read
Poem by Juliette Sebock
Today, I told someone about you. Today, for the first time in a long time, I told someone about you. I said your name and felt my heart...
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Marías at Sampaguitas
Sep 28, 20191 min read
Poem by Christine Fojas
WHICH NOW Touch the spines in the library, open the brains. Dusty, mildewed pages, knife-edged. Which now are you living in? What you...
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Marías at Sampaguitas
Sep 26, 20191 min read
Poem by Juliette Sebock
I love you I am the one who's up all night thinking of you, letting my imagination run wild with dreamscapes in some other world, a...
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Marías at Sampaguitas
Sep 8, 20192 min read
Poem by April Frances Federico
The Creation Story When I saw her, it was like the Paschal Mystery I fell in love that sizzling summer day, A day I shall remember in my...
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