Marías at Sampaguitas
Poetry by Noreen Ocampo
Embroidery
you have seen too few sunrises
to have already unlearned innate
skills of life — too young to step
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Marías at Sampaguitas
Jun 14, 20201 min read
Poetry by Juliette Sebock
I'm transported 60 years
in the length of a heartbeat
with the opening chords
& I remember us,
coupled at Empire State
in the good old days
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Marías at Sampaguitas
Jun 11, 20202 min read
Poetry by Christina Ciufo
My Heart is Not a Toy
Last winter, you eased and mended
my trepidation, broken heart,
like a broken toy secluded
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Marías at Sampaguitas
Jun 11, 20202 min read
Poetry by Christina Ciufo
Nicotine Kiss
Grey lips and rosy lips sailing alongside
as ships against the tempestuous waves
of the ocean.
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Marías at Sampaguitas
Jun 11, 20201 min read
Poetry by Andrew Shields
Interface
The layman wakes up in the morning
and doesn’t worry about striving
for anything but a coffee.
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Marías at Sampaguitas
Jun 11, 20201 min read
Poetry by Angela Weiser
Canopy Album
And for all of us there are trees.
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Marías at Sampaguitas
Jun 11, 20202 min read
Poetry by Jacqueline Wu
Moonbeams illuminate the cedar wood floors of the tiny antique shop,
The only source of light in the darkest hour of the night
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Marías at Sampaguitas
Jun 11, 20202 min read
Poetry by Young Adnan Shafi
BELOVED
My beloved eyes glare as the morning sun;
Her eyes infused with shrewd thoughts;
They haunt, I should strenuously run
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Marías at Sampaguitas
Jun 10, 20201 min read
Poetry by Connor Orrico
Sparrow
Passer domesticus
tricolored trilling
Lake Erie's eastern shore
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Marías at Sampaguitas
Jun 10, 20202 min read
Poetry by Shlagha Borah
this poem is not for bengalis
living in assam.
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Marías at Sampaguitas
Jun 10, 20201 min read
Poetry by Samuel Strathman
Meditation is synesthesia,
aerate to the brain.
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Marías at Sampaguitas
Jun 10, 20201 min read
Poetry by Elliot DelSignore
If I had wanted to care for a child I would’ve
taken better care of myself.
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Marías at Sampaguitas
Jun 10, 20202 min read
Poetry by Sarah Loverock
Do not kill the spider,
I say. It has to die,
you say, as you crush it
with tissue paper
like it’s nothing more
than a smudge of sauce
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Marías at Sampaguitas
May 30, 20202 min read
Poetry by Skyler Jaye
Haiwezi Kufikiwa
My pockets rattle with shilingi bob, change
from the kibanda where I bought
fresh mango juice and chapati.
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Marías at Sampaguitas
May 30, 20201 min read
Poetry by Skyler Jaye
I'd Kiss Your Friendship on the Mouth
There were nights we sang so loud
grief couldn’t hit our bones-
our faces masqueraded by dancing fir
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Marías at Sampaguitas
May 30, 20201 min read
Poetry by Skyler Jaye
This Country Was a Genocide
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Marías at Sampaguitas
May 30, 20201 min read
Poetry by Megan Griffith
Surviving the Midwest
You are not supposed to be here.
This frosted plain is uninhabitable
for all but the practical
the stoic
the strong.
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Marías at Sampaguitas
May 30, 20201 min read
Poetry by Megan Griffith
Little White Flowers In My Backyard on October 1st
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Marías at Sampaguitas
May 30, 20201 min read
Poetry by Megan Griffith
I’m Angry, and I Never Know What to Do About That
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