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The Sunday Poem is published weekly, and strives to include the poet reading their work.
Juan Mobili reads his poem at its conclusion.
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Nina & Maria Esther
…………….For Maria Esther Mobili & Nina Simone
Both of them put up with fools
until they didn’t
and the sea that men parted
collapsed under their stares.
I don’t know if Nina
would have liked
my mother but
I know my mother
would have not
taken that kindly
They were both storms,
twin volcanoes ready
to level off Pompeii,
wounded birds
that made predators nervous,
firm,
sad,
flames,
hymns inside me,
long red fingernails,
unforgiving lava.
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Listen to Juan Mobili read his poem
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Juan Pablo Mobili was born in Argentina. His poems appeared in The American Journal of Poetry, Hanging Loose Press, Paterson Literary Review, among others, as well as many journals around the world. He received multiple nominations for the Pushcart Prize, and his chapbook, Contraband, was published in 2022.
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Listen to the 1967 recording of Nina Simone performing “Keeper of the Flame” [Universal Music Group]
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Photo of Nina Simone/Gerrit de Bruin, CC BY 4.0 <>, via Wikimedia Commons; Photo of Maria Esther courtesy of Juan Mobili
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