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Woman to Woman

At the Old Colony Tap, she and I are having one of those uneasy talks that women have when no one else will listen. Her ex, who is my ex…

2 min readApr 5, 2024

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Woman to Woman

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Happy Hour

A woman in her seventies with a feathered haircut droops like a lily over the bar. She’s lost

2 min readJust now

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Happy Hour

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Playing Doctor

She’s sitting at the kitchen table in a bra and pastel panties. “I need to practice for my exam,” he says. She feels the cool metal…

2 min read6 days ago

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Playing Doctor

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A Landscape of Silence

From Day One: silence when he laced his fingers through hers. Yet for six years, they awkwardly skated

2 min readApr 19, 2024

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A Landscape of Silence

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Maria Nazos
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The Interstitial

To The Man I Punched

When the police showed up at my door to serve me with a restraining order, they gulped back laughter.

2 min readApr 18, 2024

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Man’s legs on a floral couch.

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Macondo

Aracataca, Columbia

1 min readApr 15, 2024

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Macondo

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Tattoo Poem

Sometimes, to truly appreciate the fact that you’re still alive, you have to wake up pressed next to a sweaty, snoring heap of a man who…

2 min readApr 13, 2024

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Person’s arm with flower tattoo.

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Maria Nazos

Not necessarily, LOL. We can do that next week when I'm in Paris!!!

1 min readApr 13, 2024

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Maria Nazos
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The Mayan Ruins in Xunatunich

The young man traveling with me had fought in Afghanistan. Not more than 25, shrapnel

2 min readApr 12, 2024

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The Mayan Ruins in Xunatunich

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After She Receives Another Late-Night Phone Call Informing Her another High School Friend Has Died

I drop the phone. My suddenly heavy cell glows on the floor, a shard of moon. This is the chime, that terrible bell

2 min readApr 9, 2024

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After She Receives Another Late-Night Phone Call Informing Her another High School Friend Has Died

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Maria Nazos

Maria Nazos

#Poet, #translator, #writer, optimist, book lover, & author of PULSE (Omnidawn 2026). Poem in NYER. Get my poetry translations: https://bit.ly/theSlowHorizon.

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