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...
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Maurisa Li-A-Ping
- Dec 28, 2021
- 1 min
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, 2021
- 1 min
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, 2021
- 1 min
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, 2021
- 1 min
"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, 2021
- 1 min
"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, 2021
- 1 min
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, 2021
- 1 min
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, 2021
- 1 min
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...