Marías at Sampaguitas
Poetry by Noreen Ocampo
& her handshake is an embrace.
The second mystery is that she smiles
the vowels of my name
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Marías at Sampaguitas
Mar 1, 20211 min read
Poetry by Christine Fojas
It’s not yours until you bleed
on it, until it tastes
the kiss of Vancouver rain
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Marías at Sampaguitas
Feb 2, 20211 min read
Poetry by Sarah Mae Dizon
My lola is the kind of person to rise earlier than the sun
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Marías at Sampaguitas
Feb 2, 20213 min read
Review by Christine Fojas
Maybe that’s one reason why translation is not much-practiced in the Philippines
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Marías at Sampaguitas
Feb 2, 20211 min read
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, 20212 min read
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 18, 20211 min read
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, 20211 min read
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, 20204 min read
Creative Non-Fiction by Noreen Ocampo
My father insisted that I should have perfect handwriting.
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Marías at Sampaguitas
Dec 3, 20201 min read
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, 20201 min read
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
Oct 19, 20201 min read
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, 20202 min read
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, 20201 min read
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
Sep 20, 20201 min read
Prose by Ennie Marie Dacut Ilasco
heliotrope sprouts from
the palms of his hands,
the dirt sifting between
his thin fingertips
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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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