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Marías at Sampaguitas

Oct 3, 20211 min read

Poetry by Jo Alvarado

my grandmother does not know how to forget she has taught my mother the same reminiscence has learned to worship grief

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Marías at Sampaguitas

Oct 3, 20211 min read

Poetry by Natasha King

What was the summer if it wasn't for us?

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Marías at Sampaguitas

Sep 30, 20211 min read

Poetry by Verna Zafra-Kasala

Wildflowers grow through the cracked mouth of the parking lot where I had my first kiss

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Marías at Sampaguitas

Sep 28, 20211 min read

Poetry by Noreen Ocampo

and you’re crying in them. you were always crying back then, but you don’t remember anymore

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Marías at Sampaguitas

Aug 8, 20211 min read

Poetry by Neen Ramos

let's drive until we reach Tagaytay. Drink coffee overlooking the Taal Lake. And imagine there’s no such thing as a pandemic.

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Marías at Sampaguitas

Aug 8, 20211 min read

Poetry by Neen Ramos

Defiance will carry me through my last days, Amidst the terror of the night, over the coastal waters of Cavite

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Marías at Sampaguitas

Aug 8, 20211 min read

Poetry by Pamela K. Santos

balik: fluid adj. state of return 🡺 to be home 🡺 to be bahay : to buy flight cab out of bahay when no one

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Marías at Sampaguitas

Aug 8, 20211 min read

Poetry by Pratiksha Sharma

the peak of sadness is on my PMS and packages of western countries for dousing my boredom.

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Marías at Sampaguitas

Aug 7, 20211 min read

Poetry by Juliette Sebock

But brave isn’t a word I’d assign myself, more deer-in-the-headlights, Rapunzel-eyes, diving into confetti night skies to avoid any mention

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Marías at Sampaguitas

Aug 7, 20211 min read

Poetry by Grace Beilstein

We need lines, where feelings distract and the way you — oh you! — look at me lingers and makes me forget

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Marías at Sampaguitas

Aug 7, 20211 min read

Poetry by Grace Beilstein

Beats, Beat, Beat, Beat Up music pours from the ever-shared vein waxes and wanes pads on shy feet. knowing what’s wrong in the mind, is...

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Marías at Sampaguitas

Aug 7, 20211 min read

Poetry by Juliette Sebock

Take a step— move toward the light, the dark, the moment.

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Marías at Sampaguitas

Aug 7, 20211 min read

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

Jul 5, 20214 min read

Poetry by Jason Magabo Perez

or his throat, or his lungs, or his song, his body now gills all over, now there, all the way over there beyond this

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Marías at Sampaguitas

Jun 29, 20211 min read

Poetry by Noreen Ocampo

the spaghetti tastes jollier when it costs a six-and-a-half hour drive to jacksonville, florida, the closest home of jolly spaghetti

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Marías at Sampaguitas

Jun 29, 20212 min read

Poetry by Juliette Sebock

as if the memory of you left a trail, breadcrumbs scattered like rose petals along the aisle, perfect footprints in the rose-white snow.

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Marías at Sampaguitas

May 20, 20211 min read

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 17, 20211 min read

Poetry by Victoria Register

i am allowed to be both a rose and its thorns, a work of art and the glass that encases it, all at once

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Marías at Sampaguitas

May 17, 20211 min read

Poetry by Jenny Mae Samson

I am a daughter of the Diaspora The blanket woven by my motherland Adorns us each in gold

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Marías at Sampaguitas

May 17, 20211 min read

Poetry by KC Bailey

Our love was a palindrome names almost anagrams of each other letters interlocking like his fingers and mine

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