Marías at Sampaguitas
Poem by Ray Ball
A Benefice Recedes Between wolves, a distance howls with longing. I did not climb the mountain (that day) I saw ravages of plague and...
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Marías at Sampaguitas
May 15, 20191 min read
Poem by Gervanna Stephens
Haiku for my lover Let’s talk about it: in the grand scheme of things, I don’t mind being soft. Gervanna Stephens is a Jamaican poet and...
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Marías at Sampaguitas
May 15, 20191 min read
Poem by Christine Fojas
FISH THORN TEARS Mother and I wrote letters to each other; some hurts were impossible to say out loud. I wonder what grandmother buried...
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Marías at Sampaguitas
May 15, 20191 min read
Poem by Christine Fojas
FREIGHT CARRIER Wake to rain. From lying prone heave against gravity's press. Hoist flesh up, center load on stilts. Ignore creaks...
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Marías at Sampaguitas
May 13, 20191 min read
Poem by Lannie Stabile
Between the Gates These hands, these fingers, this stretch of skin. Everything is weighted. And how did I manage to walk before, with my...
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Marías at Sampaguitas
May 13, 20191 min read
Poem by Melodie Jones
Doctor told me I should take the “Proper Dose” after The Story So Far Can’t see through the smoke of the fire in my mind Filling the...
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Marías at Sampaguitas
May 6, 20191 min read
Poem by Melodie Jones
after 680 South friends were number one until no one showed and i sat in my party hat all alone like my parents because the band was...
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Marías at Sampaguitas
May 6, 20191 min read
Poem by Lannie Stabile
A Parable of Wanderlust Please know it was never about you, Mom. Roads have always crooked their fingers. Tell Dad rent was paid timely,...
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Marías at Sampaguitas
May 1, 20191 min read
Poem by Janelle Salanga
LIN 16: the study of interpersonal language we are curled up in bed, your toes jostling for a spot against mine. your arm is a...
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Marías at Sampaguitas
May 1, 20191 min read
Poem by Janelle Salanga
phone call, february evening you might as well have asked why birds of a feather flock together. tethering themselves to each other,...
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Marías at Sampaguitas
May 1, 20191 min read
Poem by Juliette Sebock
Retrograde Renaissance In the years that I've been alive, springtime has been eclipsed by Pluto in retrograde. I didn't learn this until...
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Marías at Sampaguitas
May 1, 20192 min read
Poem by Tiny Tanaka
Cliches Star crossed lovers is just so cliche. you sighed one day it bothered you the way they looked at us you were the sun and I was...
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Marías at Sampaguitas
Apr 29, 20191 min read
Poem by Melodie Jones
Time Past Time past now you’re here A phantom haunting me with your presence but this time you’re real not a figment of my dreams “Will...
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Marías at Sampaguitas
Apr 29, 20191 min read
Poem by Lisa Lerma Weber
Looking Back The window to the past— how long I waited to see you on the other side, smiling at me like you wanted to be invited in. How...
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Marías at Sampaguitas
Apr 29, 20191 min read
Poem by Lannie Stabile
April 6, 2017 hi one syllable, one gasp can pull the lungs through an unsuspecting chest. i am a puddle of blood, of indecision, as you...
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Marías at Sampaguitas
Apr 29, 20191 min read
Poem by Jack Freedman
Ghost on the Rocks This creek cradles your spirit as a spliff adds blankets to the crisp air which quilts you Sitting on these rocks your...
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Marías at Sampaguitas
Apr 27, 20191 min read
Poem by Christine Fojas
CURSE FLOWER Silk-white petals Tear scent of woman Forsaken. What blooms After pain? Her curse rises At night. Humid heat Of vine...
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Marías at Sampaguitas
Apr 27, 20191 min read
Poem by Shreyaa Tandel
A lesser fall upon.. to and fro to and fro, I go squeaking, a silence.. with freckles and wrinkles of shades, one and two mirrored...
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Marías at Sampaguitas
Apr 27, 20191 min read
Poem by Yoshiro Takayasu (translated by Toshiya Kamei)
Constellations "See those constellations?" my youngest son calls from his bedroom window. I drag myself out to the veranda and stare up...
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Marías at Sampaguitas
Apr 27, 20191 min read
Poem by Paul Robert Mullen
village supermarket in january precincts below my window lush with fresh-fall horizons` absent inside vast vapours of electric white i...
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