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marychristinedelea
Feb 281 min read
Chimera by Vievee Francis
Chimera by Vievee Francis (published in her 2016 book from TriQuarterly Books, Forest Primeval) She's not "maternal," she's dangerous....
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marychristinedelea
Feb 252 min read
Before We Photographed Every Little Thing
we only took pictures of special events. Film was expensive and getting photos developed was even more costly. And we got charged for...
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marychristinedelea
Feb 251 min read
Advice to the Photographers of Atrocities by Judith McCombs
Advice to the Photographers of Atrocities by Judith McCombs (published in The Anthology of Women Poets, 1973, edited by Pamela Victorine,...
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marychristinedelea
Feb 211 min read
Poem for My Love by June Jordan
Poem for My Love by June Jordan (published in the 2005 collection, Directed by Desire: The Collected Poems of June Jordan) How do we...
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marychristinedelea
Feb 181 min read
Life on a Killer Submarine by Jimmy Carter
Life on a Killer Submarine by President Jimmy Carter (published in North Dakota Quarterly, 60:1, 1992) I had a warm, sequestered feeling...
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marychristinedelea
Feb 141 min read
Ode to the Maggot by Yusef Komunyakaa
Ode to the Maggot By Yusef Komunyakaa (Published in his 2021 book, Every Day Mojo Songs of Earth; Farrah, Straus and Giroux) Brother of...
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marychristinedelea
Feb 111 min read
The Saturday Afternoon Blues by Wanda Coleman
The Saturday Afternoon Blues by Wanda Coleman (published in her book, Imagoes, 1983, Black Sparrow Press) Can kill you can fade your life...
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marychristinedelea
Feb 71 min read
The Lion by Conrad Aiken
The Lion by Conrad Aiken (published in his book Cats and Bats and Things with Wings, 1965, Atheneum, drawings by Milton Glaser) The lion...
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marychristinedelea
Feb 42 min read
Theme for English B by Langston Hughes
Theme for English B by Langston Hughes The instructor said, Go home and write a page tonight. And let that page come out of you— Then, it...
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marychristinedelea
Jan 311 min read
Art Thief by Neal Bowers
Art Thief by Neal Bowers (published in his 1997 book, Words for the Taking: The Hunt for a Plagiaris, W.W. Norton) All art defines itself...
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marychristinedelea
Jan 281 min read
With Emma at the Ladies-Only Swimming Pond on Hampstead Heath by Linda Gregerson
With Emma at the Ladies-Only Swimming Pond on Hampstead Heath by Linda Gregerson (published in her 1996 book, The Woman Who Died in Her...
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marychristinedelea
Jan 241 min read
Homecoming Tallahassee by Kavita Gandhi
Homecoming Tallahassee by Kavita Gandhi (published in The Loch Raven Review, Winter 2009) We passed into the city like sterile vessels...
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marychristinedelea
Jan 212 min read
Theory I’m Conspiring to Share by Kristin Berger
Theory I’m Conspiring to Share by Kristin Berger (published in her 2022 book, Earthwork, published by The Poetry Box Press) Love is...
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marychristinedelea
Jan 101 min read
Who Has The Whip-Hand Over Aimless Animals by Patricia Lockwood
Who Has The Whip-Hand Over Aimless Animals by Patricia Lockwood (published in Zone 3, Vol. 25, No. 2, Fall 2020) Who has the whip-hand...
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marychristinedelea
Jan 71 min read
Out, Out--by Robert Frost
Out, Out— by Robert Frost The buzz saw snarled and rattled in the yard And made dust and dropped stove-length sticks of wood,...
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marychristinedelea
Jan 31 min read
Things We Will Forget about Whales by Laura Budofsky Wisniewski
Things We Will Forget about Whales by Laura Budofsky Wisniewski (published in Canary, Issue 47, Winter 2019-2020) How the shy ones sang...
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marychristinedelea
Dec 31, 20231 min read
Home on New Year's by Dina Ben-Lev
Home on New Year’s by Dina Ben-Lev Never mind about being alone. At least when you need it, the bathroom’s unoccupied. Couples won’t...
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marychristinedelea
Dec 27, 20231 min read
Windigo by Louise Erdrich
Windigo by Louise Erdrich (published in her collection, Jacklight, 1984, Henry Holt Publishers) For Angela The Windigo is a flesh-eating,...
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marychristinedelea
Dec 24, 20231 min read
Soap by Karin Gottshall
Soap by Karin Gottshall (published in Juked, 2013) It is full bitter winter when I begin to bleed. Too ashamed to tell. Aligning myself...
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marychristinedelea
Dec 10, 20231 min read
Saint Monica Burns It Down by Mary Biddinger
Saint Monica Burns It Down by Mary Biddinger (published in Valparaiso Poetry Review) It wasn’t her house, but she would strip it of its...
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