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marychristinedelea
Sep 252 min read
The Death of Rachel Carson--April 14, 1964 by Donelle Dreese
The Death of Rachel Carson--April 14, 1964 by Donelle Dreese (published in Canary , Spring, 2017 ) The battle of living things...
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marychristinedelea
Sep 222 min read
Ellis Island by Joseph Bruchac
Ellis Island by Joseph Bruchac (published in his 1978 book, Entering Onondaga, Cold Mountain Press) Beyond the red brick of Ellis...
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marychristinedelea
Sep 183 min read
Meteor, April 2020 by Amy Miller
Meteor, April 2020 by Amy Miller (published in Sweet Lit, 2020 ) In the year of our plague, we saw a light. Like a plane on fire,...
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marychristinedelea
Sep 152 min read
Season’s End by Audrey Colasanti
Season’s End by Audrey Colasanti (published in Humana Obscura , Fall/Winter 2021 ) All around, the grasses sway copper and flax, warm...
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marychristinedelea
Sep 112 min read
Portrait of a Figure Near Water by Jane Kenyon
Portrait of a Figure Near Water by Jane Kenyon (published in her Collected Poems , Graywolf Press, 2005) Rebuked, she turned and ran...
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marychristinedelea
Sep 83 min read
How Aunt Maud Took to Being a Woman by Ruth Stone
How Aunt Maud Took to Being a Woman by Ruth Stone (published in Persimmon Tree and elsewhere) A long hill sloped down to Aunt Maud’s...
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marychristinedelea
Sep 42 min read
Summer by César Vallejo
Summer by César Vallejo translated from the Spanish by Yvette Siegert Summer, I am leaving. And how they pain me, These meek hands of...
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marychristinedelea
Sep 12 min read
August 12 in the Nebraska Sand Hills Watching the Perseids Meteor Shower by Twyla Hansen
August 12 in the Nebraska Sand Hills Watching the Perseids Meteor Shower by Twyla Hansen (published in her 2011 book, Dirt Songs: A...
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marychristinedelea
Aug 283 min read
Curriculum Vitae by Lisel Mueller
Curriculum Vitae by Lisel Mueller (published in her 1996 book, Alive Together: New and Selected Poems, from Louisiana State...
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marychristinedelea
Aug 252 min read
In Montana: Exotic by Gwendolen Haste
In Montana: Exotic by Gwendolen Haste (published in Poetry , January 1924 ) Her frightened soul shrank When she saw The bitter...
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marychristinedelea
Aug 212 min read
When I Think of the Immortal Jellyfish by Christen Noel Kauffman
When I Think of the Immortal Jellyfish by Christen Noel Kauffman (published in Whale Road Review , 2016, Issue 16) I think of the way...
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marychristinedelea
Aug 182 min read
(A terrible kaleidoscope) by Lina Kostenko, translated by Uilleam Blacker
(A terrible kaleidoscope) by Lina Kostenko, translated by Uilleam Blacker (published in published in Words Without Borders , April...
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marychristinedelea
Aug 143 min read
Gay Marriage Poem by Jenny Johnson
Gay Marriage Poem by Jenny Johnson (published in her 2017 book, In Full Velvet , Sarabande Books) We could promise to elope like my...
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marychristinedelea
Aug 112 min read
Happy Foot Sad Foot by Ruth Madievsky
Happy Foot Sad Foot by Ruth Madievsky (published in Bat City Review , Issue 16 ) This world is equally home to sleeping dogs and...
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marychristinedelea
Aug 71 min read
314 by Emily Dickinson
314 by Emily Dickinson “Hope” is the thing with feathers— That perches in the soul— And sings the tune without the words— And never...
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marychristinedelea
Aug 42 min read
Risk by Elizabeth Appell
Risk by Elizabeth Appell And then the day came, when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to...
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marychristinedelea
Jul 311 min read
A Brief History of Nakedness by Flower Conroy
A Brief History of Nakedness by Flower Conroy (published in Duende , Issue 2, 2015 ) In the beginning was clay made flesh & tingle, &...
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marychristinedelea
Jul 281 min read
Noon by Harindranath Chattopadhyaya
Noon by Harindranath Chattopadhyaya The noon, a mystic dog with paws of fire, Runs through the sky in ecstasy of drouth, Licking the...
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marychristinedelea
Jul 242 min read
Nuestra Señora de las Maravillas Lost at Sea, 1527 by Lisa M. Bradley
Nuestra Señora de las Maravillas Lost at Sea, 1527 by Lisa M. Bradley (published in Strange Horizons , October 3, 2016 ) Nobody needs...
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marychristinedelea
Jul 211 min read
Friendship by Lucien Stryk
Friendship by Lucien Stryk (published in Selected Poems , 1976, The Swallow Press) He writes again. Since his divorce a fist has never...
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