Marías at Sampaguitas
Poetry by Maria Bolaños
We watch the house wrap itself around her.
Light and heat return to the earth.
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Marías at Sampaguitas
May 17, 20211 min read
Poetry by Victoria Register
i am allowed to be both a rose and its thorns,
a work of art and the glass that encases it,
all at once
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Marías at Sampaguitas
May 17, 20211 min read
Poetry by Jenny Mae Samson
I am a daughter of the Diaspora
The blanket woven by my motherland
Adorns us each in gold
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Marías at Sampaguitas
May 17, 20211 min read
Poetry by KC Bailey
Our love was a palindrome
names almost anagrams of each other
letters interlocking like his fingers and mine
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Marías at Sampaguitas
May 16, 20211 min read
Poetry by b. pick
She loves me, she loves me not,
Time will only tell as she pluck-pluck-plucks away my petals.
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Marías at Sampaguitas
May 16, 20211 min read
Poetry by KC Bailey
Don’t know where she went
the young girl
singing in the mirror –
Crowded House and REM
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Marías at Sampaguitas
May 15, 20211 min read
Poetry by Leila Tualla
Claustrophobia comes at me in moments between
dusk and nightfall.
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Marías at Sampaguitas
May 15, 20212 min read
Poetry by Christian Aldana
We look up at the sky and see blue; uninterrupted
and no one tells us we need to step out of the sun
our skin a cloudless glow, we stretch
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Marías at Sampaguitas
May 15, 20211 min read
Poetry by Florina Rivera
Because I can’t see your eminence
while you're crushing and washing out your gem
in never ending rivers full of cautioning ink.
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Marías at Sampaguitas
May 15, 20211 min read
Poetry by Noreen Ocampo
I haven’t figured out what good parenting looks like
maybe a dollar to not skip class two
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Marías at Sampaguitas
May 15, 20211 min read
Poetry by Victoria Bautista
Would you have loved me
If they called me Jasmine
Instead of Sampaguita
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Marías at Sampaguitas
May 11, 20211 min read
Poetry by Moni Brar
Nani-ji told us stories,
long stories and made-up stories,
and maybe even true stories of
everything she knew
everything she’s gathered
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Marías at Sampaguitas
May 10, 20212 min read
Poetry by Asela Lee Kemper
With Tamar’s jokes and my elders’
faces flash on tweet after tweet Rest In Peace,
I don’t want to be here.
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Marías at Sampaguitas
May 10, 20212 min read
Poetry by Leela Raj-Sankar
April brings a hundred-degree spring, so I read in the backyard; a book of
love poems you gave me for my birthday last year
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Marías at Sampaguitas
May 1, 20211 min read
Poetry by Noreen Ocampo
the showers are
too weak
in our new house,
or else I am too weak,
letting water pass
right through me
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Marías at Sampaguitas
Apr 20, 20212 min read
Poetry by Jean Allynn
how do we show up in our stories,
when elders are no longer around?
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Marías at Sampaguitas
Apr 20, 20211 min read
Poetry by Liaa Melissa
When asked why I still have faith
after all these years, I wonder how could you not?
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Marías at Sampaguitas
Apr 20, 20211 min read
Poetry by Noreen Ocampo
conjuring the Sahara
in our orange hallways & together
trekking across those impossible sands.
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Marías at Sampaguitas
Apr 6, 20212 min read
Poetry by Ellie Lopez
Mami tells me this spell as we pass the rosemary in the garden. As she carefully grabs a stem, placing it between the palms of her hands.
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Marías at Sampaguitas
Apr 3, 20211 min read
Poetry by Noreen Ocampo
It has been three seasons since I last saw you, she hums. I was beginning to forget your face.
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