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marychristinedelea
Dec 30, 20211 min read
Plague Victims Catapulted Over Walls Into Besieged City by Thomas Lux
Plague Victims Catapulted Over Walls Into Besieged City by Thomas Lux Early germ warfare. The dead hurled this way look like wheels in...
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marychristinedelea
Dec 26, 20211 min read
A Happy Day: Poetry Prompt
Use Kooser's poem as inspiration! Write a 7-line poem that finds satisfaction in the ordinary on a special day. You don't need to use...
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marychristinedelea
Dec 26, 20211 min read
A Happy Birthday by Ted Kooser
A Happy Birthday by Ted Kooser This evening, I sat by an open window and read till the light was gone and the book was no more than a...
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marychristinedelea
Dec 22, 20211 min read
AAA Vacation Guide by Ernest Hilbert
“Philadelphia isn’t as bad as Philadelphians say it is.” —Billboard on Interstate 95 Paris in the Spring, Autumn in New York, Singers...
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marychristinedelea
Dec 19, 20211 min read
Five Things Plus a Tree: Poetry Prompt
We are going to use today's poem, "Open your almonds slowly," by Jessica Brown for today's prompt. Tree: Choose a tree that produces food...
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marychristinedelea
Dec 19, 20211 min read
Open your almonds slowly by Jessica Brown
Open your almonds slowly by Jessica Brown published in Honest Ulsterman, June 2018 The air is so still I worry something bad is Coming as...
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marychristinedelea
Dec 15, 20211 min read
Anderson Inside the Hurricane by Stefi Weisburd
published in New Ohio Review, Issue 4, Fall 2008 Anderson Inside the Hurricane by Stefi Weisburd The wind has come to remind us of our...
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marychristinedelea
Dec 12, 20211 min read
I Must Be Dreaming: Poetry Prompt
The oil painting shown below is entitled Dreams. It was painted by Vittorio Matteo Corcos in 1896. The woman was the daughter of a friend...
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marychristinedelea
Dec 12, 20211 min read
Prairie Work by Susan Niz
Prairie Work by Susan Niz published in Ponder Review, Volume 2, Issue 2, Fall 2018 I walk fatly through field Like a freckled,...
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marychristinedelea
Dec 8, 20211 min read
We Lived Happily During the War by Ilya Kaminsky
We Lived Happily During the War by Ilya Kaminsky from the book, Deaf Republic, published by Graywolf Press, 2019 And when they bombed...
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marychristinedelea
Dec 5, 20211 min read
Five Stages: Poetry Prompt
This also works for nonfiction and fiction! In their ground-breaking book, On Grief and Grieving, Elisabeth Kübler Ross and David Kessler...
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marychristinedelea
Dec 5, 20211 min read
soil by Irène P. Mathieu
soil by Irène P. Mathieu from the book orogeny, 2016 Bob Kaufman Prize, Trembling Pillow Press the way you say soil sounds like soul, as...
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marychristinedelea
Dec 1, 20211 min read
Winter Trees by William Carlos Williams
Winter Trees by William Carlos Williams All the complicated details of the attiring and the disattiring are completed! A liquid moon...
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