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Olga-Maria Cruz
writing
excerpts from some of my published poems and essays,
and where to find them
Poems
from Little Circe
"Even at three, she knew
the days were hers,
the tides came in,
the dune-grass curled
at her command..."
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Poetry East, no. 61
from I'm curious
"... Yesterday, heedless as a toddler
and as easily bored,
I clicked through Malaysia (traffic)
and Scotland (river), India (rooftops),
Canada (quirky container garden)
and watched an old woman
hanging up wet clothes in China..."
The Louisville Review, vol. 90
Essays
"Fasting was a new idea to me; it sounded mysterious and powerful—a bloodless sacrifice."
from Fasting: a Diptych
The Carolina Quarterly, vol. 70.2
"I started dissociating more and differently after Papi died. Sometimes at the piano, I floated up to the ceiling and watched myself play..."
from Salvaging Parts
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