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Marías at Sampaguitas
May 30, 20191 min read
Poem by Gervanna Stephens
girl meets world The girl cannot write of trees lest she become their roots sprouting brilliant and full up, up, up pinnacle of self...
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Marías at Sampaguitas
May 30, 20191 min read
Poem by Juliette Sebock
Amicable We talk about exes who we left on friendly terms, and those—usually just one— who we'd take all over again in an instant. Even...
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Marías at Sampaguitas
May 30, 20191 min read
Poem by Shreyaa Tandel
Do people exhaust the sea? The riverine widens, As the moon becomes full And so does the tide The white and invisible surface Smears the...
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Marías at Sampaguitas
May 29, 20193 min read
Poem by D.R. Baker
before : you wanted to be the man she needed you to be, wanted to catch spiders and fix leaks, build shelves and drive the moving van....
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Marías at Sampaguitas
May 29, 20191 min read
Poem by Cherisse Yanit Nadal
It hurts less when I cast us in history 1898 You are America; She: Paris; All of my white boyfriends: Spain. The difference, you said,...
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Marías at Sampaguitas
May 29, 20191 min read
Poem by Cherisse Yanit Nadal
Benevolent Assimilation Before I was born, I knew kindness was a weapon Sharper than a bayonet. A moving bullet. Thrust it to change my...
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Marías at Sampaguitas
May 29, 20191 min read
Poem by Nazli Yildirim
A Father Poem Do stories ever befool children? Blood was invading my head when you return from work your shirt was a fragile tobacco...
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Marías at Sampaguitas
May 29, 20191 min read
Poem by Nazli Yildirim
Zehra a lasting breath that folds my heart migrate me from the far maps on your breast zehra, your solitude blanching my eyes write me on...
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Marías at Sampaguitas
May 29, 20191 min read
Poem by Anushka Bidani
Samaira Samaira takes her morning coffee black; the bitter burn a test match for her tongue to swing defences and offences back and...
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Marías at Sampaguitas
May 28, 20191 min read
Poem by Melodie Jones
BEFORE transcend the sky baby we were so high blinded by our love everything orbited around us stars twinkling in our eyes limitless and...
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Marías at Sampaguitas
May 28, 20191 min read
Poem by Megan Russo
Before Sinking Bitterness in silence, failure chronicled by my own hand, nails carving into the surface, etching my collected...
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Marías at Sampaguitas
May 28, 20192 min read
Poem by Venus Davis
Before, you were “He loves me”, as I picked the maze of petals from a rose. I thought you could never love me not. A warm hug, the brush...
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Marías at Sampaguitas
May 28, 20191 min read
Poem by Hannah Schoettmer
thought exercise in the short time left pre-war imagine: a big atom bomb coming towards home on a midsummer evening. let me tell you the...
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Marías at Sampaguitas
May 28, 20191 min read
Poem by Christine Liwag Dixon
How to Eat an American Mango Slice two mango boats away from the bone. Cut its flesh into a checkerboard-- Each juicy square is a piece...
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Marías at Sampaguitas
May 28, 20191 min read
Poem by Lauren Suchenski
This absent forgetting This absent forgetting of the heart; this slight disrespect to the curvature of my love The way your hands glaze...
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Marías at Sampaguitas
May 28, 20191 min read
Poem by Lauren Suchenski
All you can measure Two black holes; I am, i am spiraling towards an infinite pool - of matter, or how it matters, or the mingling of...
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Marías at Sampaguitas
May 28, 20191 min read
Poem by Lynne Schmidt
Waterfall Moments If it were possible I would have lived in that moment. I would have folded my shirts, Bought new socks Packed my bags...
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Marías at Sampaguitas
May 28, 20192 min read
Poem by Lynne Schmidt
Weighing Words The words are weighed on my tongue a delicate measurements taken to see if this one is too heavy and will sink, if those...
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Marías at Sampaguitas
May 28, 20191 min read
Poem by Lynne Schmidt
Twenty Six Seconds You could set a timer From the second we separate, To when I shatter Like a windshield. Press start as soon as your...
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Marías at Sampaguitas
May 28, 20191 min read
Poem by Ray Ball
Hiraeth I knew my iPhone could not capture the magic of the trees shrouded in hoarfrost: the aftermath of ice fog that descended from the...
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