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Poetry reading by Madison Co-Poet Laureate Sarah Busse

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To say, this hour teeters over a chasm


is one path to understanding.

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To say, come May, sunlight thickens


like pulled taffy is a choice.


 


But what are the alternatives, given such


a scrap bag of fragments, figments:


 


a truck’s ignition, close


of a mailbox, step of a child upstairs.


 


Dry sounds, though the morning


smelled like every screen door


 


you ever pressed your nose to, wishing.


The cardinals keep scraping away. Find me.

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