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Marías at Sampaguitas
May 16, 20211 min read
Poetry by b. pick
She loves me, she loves me not,
Time will only tell as she pluck-pluck-plucks away my petals.
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Marías at Sampaguitas
May 16, 20211 min read
Poetry by KC Bailey
Don’t know where she went
the young girl
singing in the mirror –
Crowded House and REM
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Marías at Sampaguitas
May 15, 20212 min read
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, 20211 min read
Poetry by Florina Rivera
Because I can’t see your eminence
while you're crushing and washing out your gem
in never ending rivers full of cautioning ink.
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Marías at Sampaguitas
May 15, 20211 min read
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
May 15, 20211 min read
Poetry by Victoria Bautista
Would you have loved me
If they called me Jasmine
Instead of Sampaguita
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Marías at Sampaguitas
May 10, 20212 min read
Poetry by Asela Lee Kemper
With Tamar’s jokes and my elders’
faces flash on tweet after tweet Rest In Peace,
I don’t want to be here.
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Marías at Sampaguitas
May 1, 20211 min read
Poetry by Noreen Ocampo
the showers are
too weak
in our new house,
or else I am too weak,
letting water pass
right through me
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Marías at Sampaguitas
Apr 20, 20212 min read
Poetry by Jean Allynn
how do we show up in our stories,
when elders are no longer around?
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Marías at Sampaguitas
Apr 20, 20211 min read
Poetry by Liaa Melissa
When asked why I still have faith
after all these years, I wonder how could you not?
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Marías at Sampaguitas
Apr 20, 20211 min read
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 6, 20212 min read
Poetry by Ellie Lopez
Mami tells me this spell as we pass the rosemary in the garden. As she carefully grabs a stem, placing it between the palms of her hands.
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Marías at Sampaguitas
Apr 3, 20211 min read
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 20, 20211 min read
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 14, 20211 min read
Poetry by Tiffany Nicole Pigeé
breathe in real deep. and release
from the pit of your soul. and the
seat of your spirit. wail
like a banshee.
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Marías at Sampaguitas
Mar 9, 20212 min read
Poetry by Grace Beilstein
If you smile, you’re American,
pushing happiness off as a goal post
and not a choice made every glorious, American day.
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Marías at Sampaguitas
Mar 4, 20213 min read
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 4, 20211 min read
Poetry by Juliette Sebock
I see your photo and imagine
you must have been sweet
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Marías at Sampaguitas
Mar 4, 20211 min read
Poetry by Juliette Sebock
I learnt to believe
that bad things
come in threes
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Marías at Sampaguitas
Mar 1, 20211 min read
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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