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Sara Marie Ortiz

Poetry

Winter 2010

Somnus

By Sara Marie Ortiz

A terrible odyssey. I am to compose a symphony of my missing and missing you. I might draw little dark vacant eyes where their mouths should be. My memory sometimes […]

Poetry

Winter 2010

Asphyxia Instead

By Sara Marie Ortiz

He: would write about uncovering tiny squirmy pink baby field mice, working the land at Haak’u with my grandfather one season. I: would speak and write about cutting open the […]