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Maurisa Li-A-Ping
Jan 6, 20221 min read
bad bitxh energy, but as a goat
i may not be the meatiest goat in the field but bitxh bad goats can be taught their name come when called don't call me less i send for...
Maurisa Li-A-Ping
Dec 28, 20211 min read
before
#leaningintomyobsessions is a series where i write about things that i cannot get away from, that wake me up in the night and cut off my...
Maurisa Li-A-Ping
Dec 22, 20211 min read
noticing the body: chronically
it is warm enough to comfortably waltz under the sun here i sit in a room made for waiting candy tulips losing balance in my trachea
Maurisa Li-A-Ping
Dec 15, 20211 min read
one day my best friend said, “you know you got real big teeth”
god bless the overbite cradling my tongue keeping lovers out me in yet we grind grind and grind and grind our enamel away as the full...
Maurisa Li-A-Ping
Dec 11, 20211 min read
"TO THE YOUNG WHO WANT TO DIE"
By Gwendolyn Brooks Sit down. Inhale. Exhale. The gun will wait. The lake will wait. The tall gall in the small seductive vial will wait...
Maurisa Li-A-Ping
Dec 9, 20211 min read
"Don't you want to believe it?"
im not a very hopeful person, but i am trying to be. hope is a powerful and dangerous thing. i deeply enjoy reading ada limon, here is a...
Maurisa Li-A-Ping
Dec 6, 20211 min read
leaning into my obsessions
on february 11th, 2021, ten days after my birthday, i went to my gynecologist for a biopsy of my vulva. months later i wrote this poem...
Maurisa Li-A-Ping
Nov 30, 20211 min read
Dear Nikky Finney,
I keep returning to your National Book Award speech and how “Black people were the only people in the United States ever explicitly...
Maurisa Li-A-Ping
Nov 29, 20211 min read
welcome to my blog: noticing maurisa
in roughly 6 months, God willing, i will graduate from Randolph College with a MFA in Creative Writing. i’ve been thinking about how i...
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