It’s not what you hear
but what you think
you hear
in me
that makes you tie yourself
to the sails—
this is the maddening
of the seas.
Marilia Angeline is a poet, writer, actor, and transformation coach based in Los Angeles. She holds B.A.s from The University of Michigan in Creative Writing & Literature and Drama. Her poetry often explores neurodivergence and the mind body spirit connection, as well as myth and magic and her Greek-Cypriot ancestry. Marilia’s poems have been published by the City of West Hollywood, Yale Younger Poet Prize Winner Richard Siken’s Spork Press, Myth & Lore, redrosethorns magazine, and Spoon Knife 9. She is working on her debut poetry book.
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