Marías at Sampaguitas
Poetry by Noreen Ocampo
I want you to be like me. I want
you to have reasons to live.
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Marías at Sampaguitas
- May 28, 2021
- 4 min
Review by Maria Bolaños
Garner is a biracial Filipina-Canadian living in the Greater Toronto area.
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Marías at Sampaguitas
- May 20, 2021
- 1 min
Poetry by Maria Bolaños
there's a layer of dust on my crocodile skin
i've been in southern california so long
the hawk cuts an arc in the sky and agrees
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Marías at Sampaguitas
- May 20, 2021
- 1 min
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 15, 2021
- 2 min
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, 2021
- 1 min
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
- Apr 20, 2021
- 1 min
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 13, 2021
- 4 min
Review by Maria Bolaños
Khalisa Rae’s Ghost in a Black Girl’s Throat takes an unflinching look at the racist legacy.
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Marías at Sampaguitas
- Apr 3, 2021
- 1 min
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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Marías at Sampaguitas
- Mar 21, 2021
- 1 min
Poetry by Noreen Ocampo
I’m running out of options. because I like
the impossible sound of a typing speed
that isn’t going anywhere.
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Marías at Sampaguitas
- Mar 4, 2021
- 3 min
Poetry by Christine Fojas
homebody | cocoon | 2020 atrophied some of my hard won progress | change that officially by calling | 2021 the year of
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Marías at Sampaguitas
- Mar 1, 2021
- 1 min
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, 2021
- 1 min
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, 2021
- 3 min
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, 2021
- 1 min
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
- 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
- Oct 27, 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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