Marías at Sampaguitas
Poetry by Noreen Ocampo
Would you buy flowers
for yourself? Can you
tell me all the people who would?
The people who have?
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Marías at Sampaguitas
- Jan 27, 2021
- 2 min
Poetry by L.R. Dimaandal
How many spoonfuls of shame must you measure out
To start the recipe of my humanity?
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Marías at Sampaguitas
- Jan 27, 2021
- 1 min
Poetry by Anureet Watta
Forgive me,
my arrival has disrupted your sentences.
gender is such a hoax, isn’t it?
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Marías at Sampaguitas
- Jan 23, 2021
- 1 min
Poetry by Juliette Sebock
I subscribe to a dozen magazines one night
because these are such good deals
and I've reignited an affair from years ago
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Marías at Sampaguitas
- Jan 23, 2021
- 3 min
Flash Fiction by Morgan Dante
“What’s he doing?” Jophiel asked, brushing their cornsilk hair out of their eyes.
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Marías at Sampaguitas
- Jan 18, 2021
- 1 min
Poetry by Shreyaa Tandel
when the sun goes down
we step
Together in glass slippers
Far afar by miles, near with fright
Of being predated, chased, killed
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Marías at Sampaguitas
- Jan 18, 2021
- 1 min
Poetry by Noreen Ocampo
I find a sunny place to survive.
Every morning, a new magnum opus greets me
& I am so awake
& my parents don’t have to worry.
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Marías at Sampaguitas
- Jan 18, 2021
- 1 min
Poetry by Christine Fojas
the pen pierces the point in the plane
of my graphing paper, at rest
before it swoops, curves, and loops,
where am I?
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Marías at Sampaguitas
- Dec 16, 2020
- 4 min
Creative Non-Fiction by Noreen Ocampo
My father insisted that I should have perfect handwriting.
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Marías at Sampaguitas
- Dec 3, 2020
- 1 min
Poetry by Noreen Ocampo
In the refrigerator:
an unopened bottle of orange juice with
half the sugar already missing
because my mother remembered
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Marías at Sampaguitas
- Nov 21, 2020
- 1 min
Poetry by Joseph Schwarzkopf Jr./Butchoy
My mother tells me of half recalled grandparents
With possibility of tainted blood, of self destruction
Of women who hid with their sisters
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Marías at Sampaguitas
- Nov 21, 2020
- 2 min
Poetry by Christian Aldana
This is what joy looks like:
palm to palm, radiant, mga kasama.
Sing like every tomorrow is infinite
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Marías at Sampaguitas
- Nov 1, 2020
- 2 min
Flash Fiction by A.R. Salandy
Natural Selection The quaint dwelling seemed to hunker down on itself as a bleak wind tore through the night, rousing restless trees in...
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Marías at Sampaguitas
- Oct 26, 2020
- 3 min
Review by Noreen Ocampo
Finish Filipinx American History Month on a strong note and show Elsa Valmidiano your support!
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Marías at Sampaguitas
- Oct 25, 2020
- 1 min
Flash Fiction by Francine Witte
Close like they did long ago. Death watches from the lawn, stalker that he is. He puts his deathpencil behind his ear and stares.
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Marías at Sampaguitas
- Oct 25, 2020
- 2 min
Poetry by Aleah Dye
There is a part of me that knows my boyfriend is human/ but part of me still thinks him angel/ sprite/ fairy/ elf/everything soft
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Marías at Sampaguitas
- Oct 19, 2020
- 1 min
Poetry by Bea Piñero
The darkness of
The past frightens me
For I once lost
Myself, trapped in
Society’s idea of perfection
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Marías at Sampaguitas
- Oct 18, 2020
- 2 min
Poetry by Keith Daniel Espina
A hit a sip then a chug then the lights start to strobe with a flash as it blinks as the thrill of the night hits a peak
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Marías at Sampaguitas
- Oct 15, 2020
- 1 min
Poetry by Christine Fojas
Every morning in paradise, the locals go out to bury the remains
tourists have left in their wake under the sand.
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Marías at Sampaguitas
- Oct 15, 2020
- 1 min
Poetry by Debasis Tripathy
In an unnamed grave,
a few centuries after death,
when they dig out my skeleton -
from the pelvis and the skull
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