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marychristinedelea
Jul 172 min read
Elegy for Myself by Stanley Moss
Elegy for Myself by Stanley Moss (published in Poetry, OCT/NOV 1987) The ashes and dust are laughing, swaddled, perfumed and powdered,...
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marychristinedelea
Jul 141 min read
Little Star: Week 8 by Cameron Morse
Little Star: Week 8 by Cameron Morse (published in Whale Road Review, Issue 9, Winter 2017) Embryo son, fetus daughter, wherever you are...
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marychristinedelea
Jul 102 min read
A Parking Lot in West Houston by Monica Youn
A Parking Lot in West Houston by Monica Youn (from her 2003 book, Barter, from Gray Wolf Press) Angels are unthinkable in hot weather...
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marychristinedelea
Jul 72 min read
Women Whose Lives Are Food, Men Whose Lives Are Money by Joyce Carol Oates
Women Whose Lives Are Food, Men Whose Lives Are Money by Joyce Carol Oates (published in her 1978 book of the same name, Louisiana State...
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marychristinedelea
Jul 32 min read
Chicago by Carl Sandburg
Chicago by Carl Sandburg HOG Butcher for the World, Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat, Player with Railroads and the Nation's Freight Handler;...
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marychristinedelea
Jun 301 min read
To the Pay Toilet by Marge Piercy
To the Pay Toilet by Marge Piercy You strop my anger, especially when I find you in restaurant or bar and pay for the same liquid, coming...
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marychristinedelea
Jun 261 min read
On the Death of Benjamin Franklin by Philip Freneau
On the Death of Benjamin Franklin by Philip Freneau Thus, some tall tree that long hath stood The glory of its native wood, By storms...
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marychristinedelea
Jun 231 min read
Love Song for Love Songs by Rafael Campo
Love Song for Love Songs by Rafael Campo (published on the Academy of American Poets website) A golden age of love songs and we still...
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marychristinedelea
Jun 191 min read
Desirous of Her Liberty at This Time by Rhonda M. Ward
Desirous of Her Liberty at This Time by Rhonda M. Ward (published in Poetry, November 2021, in The Witness Stones Project portfolio)...
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marychristinedelea
Jun 161 min read
Hope by Elsa Gidlow
Hope by Elsa Gidlow (from her 1923 book, On a Golden Thread) You would win me, woo me, win me, To be your lover, Hope! You would lure me,...
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marychristinedelea
Jun 121 min read
if time is queer/and memory is trans/and my hands hurt in the cold/then by Raquel Salas Rivera
if time is queer/and memory is trans/and my hands hurt in the cold/then by Raquel Salas Rivera (published in their 2021 book, x/ex/exis:...
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marychristinedelea
Jun 91 min read
Elegy for Mr. Spock by W. Todd Kaneko
Elegy for Mr. Spock by W. Todd Kaneko (published in Split Lip Magazine, August 2018) The first time you died, your friends searched the...
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marychristinedelea
Jun 53 min read
Casey at the Bat by Ernest Lawrence Thayer
Casey at the Bat by Ernest Lawrence Thayer (first published on June 3, 1888 in The San Francisco Examiner) The outlook wasn't brilliant...
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marychristinedelea
Jun 22 min read
Night Baseball by Michael Blumenthal
Night Baseball by Michael Blumenthal (and printed here, as well as in his book Days We Would Rather Know) [I] retrace by moonlight the...
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marychristinedelea
May 291 min read
Instructions for Not Giving Up by Ada Limón
Instructions on Not Giving Up by Ada Limón (and can be found here as well as on my refrigerator) More than the fuchsia funnels breaking...
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marychristinedelea
May 261 min read
Daily Courage Doesn't Count by Alta
Daily Courage Doesn't Count by Alta (published in A Geography of Poets, edited by Edward Field, 1979) daily courage doesn't count we...
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marychristinedelea
May 221 min read
Not Waving But Drowning by Stevie Smith
Not Waving But Drowning by Stevie Smith Nobody heard him, the dead man, But still he lay moaning: I was much further out than you thought...
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marychristinedelea
May 194 min read
For I will consider my Cat Jeoffrey by Christopher Smart
from Jubilate Agno by Christopher Smart For I will consider my Cat Jeoffry. For he is the servant of the Living God duly and daily...
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marychristinedelea
May 151 min read
Death Is Nothing At All by Henry Scott Holland
Death Is Nothing At All by Henry Scott Holland Death is nothing at all. It does not count. I have only slipped away into the next room....
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marychristinedelea
May 121 min read
Henry Hudson Looks at the Hudson by David Shapiro
Henry Hudson Looks at the Hudson by David Shapiro (published in Jacket Magazine, August, 2003) Henry Hudson turned to me and said: Be...
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