Marías at Sampaguitas
Poetry by Karo Ska
one night at bath time,
my mother tries scrubbing
the brown out of me, grating
a ridged sponge over & over
my skin, until
i'm crying
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Marías at Sampaguitas
Oct 13, 20201 min read
Poetry by S. T. Brant
The bells chime,
The lyre, harp, and trumpet;
The notes are the rays
Of the moon
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Marías at Sampaguitas
Oct 12, 20201 min read
Poetry by Eliza Nicole Ananca
Careful,
dear child,
when you walk
on earth.
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Marías at Sampaguitas
Oct 12, 20201 min read
Poetry by Gretchen Rockwell
Certain journeys we can only make
alone, reaching into the void and hoping
we land safely.
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Marías at Sampaguitas
Oct 12, 20201 min read
Poetry by Ellie Lopez
I HATE MY TONGUE. The last words I said to my Abuelita were words said through tears and broken Spanish.
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Marías at Sampaguitas
Oct 12, 20201 min read
Poetry by John Grey
Long before evening,
he imagines himself at your door,
exchanging greetings with
a brass knocker,
the number 32.
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Marías at Sampaguitas
Sep 19, 20202 min read
Poetry by Christine Fojas
Love expanded like a thought in my head
circling like a snake made of smoke
whispering of an endless hunger.
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Marías at Sampaguitas
Sep 5, 20201 min read
Poetry by Seán Griffin
Instructions: Print and cut along the dotted lines. Mix and match to create your own poem.
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Marías at Sampaguitas
Sep 1, 20201 min read
Poetry by Noreen Ocampo
five a.m. fog breaks
for seafoam skies. I teardrop
across dewy grass.
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Marías at Sampaguitas
Aug 25, 20202 min read
Poetry by Seán Griffin
Thin air between us, our fogged breaths mingle, and you wait
for my words to form from where they’re forged.
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Marías at Sampaguitas
Aug 24, 20201 min read
Poetry by Noreen Ocampo
at first confession,
I wish my favorite priest a
happy Valentine’s.
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Marías at Sampaguitas
Aug 10, 20201 min read
Poetry by Juliette Sebock
she saw him.
walking the streets—
her heart
stopped from the periphery.
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Marías at Sampaguitas
Aug 6, 20201 min read
Poetry by Khalisa Rae
All around me women are brick
laying. Hand filthy from mortar,
fingernails red from the clay
they packed together to mold
their fortress.
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Marías at Sampaguitas
Aug 6, 20201 min read
Poetry by Laura Tavasse
a cheap pink plastic rose and I
board the train.
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Marías at Sampaguitas
Aug 5, 20201 min read
Poetry by Renee Agatep
He minds the screaming
kettle, silentious and steady,
measured in teaspoons
of amber clover bouquets
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Marías at Sampaguitas
Aug 5, 20202 min read
Poetry by Khushee Dogra
*Breeding ground for ill nurtured men*
The day i found a suicide letter in mother’s room.
Mine thought about committing suicide
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Marías at Sampaguitas
Aug 4, 20201 min read
Poetry by Allison Bohn
I knew what she meant, but I can't help but think “Missus”: the misstep of the Missus.
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Marías at Sampaguitas
Aug 4, 20202 min read
Poetry by Akanksha Patra
My frail mother
cries into a fishbowl
then, drinks it down in a gulp.
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Marías at Sampaguitas
Aug 4, 20202 min read
Poetry by Akanksha Patra
where I come from—
women wear blood-thick awlta on their feet,
it fills up the cracks on their soles like Kaveri’s tributaries.
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Marías at Sampaguitas
Aug 4, 20201 min read
Poetry by Nick Newman
When I first write this story, my pencil
snaps halfway through the first sentence
I pick up another but a hand crumples me.
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