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Upon my table I will write
and fight — with words
and let them win —
when sense they make
out and in
the lines —
They will take their time,
and I will take their sense,
and at this table,
together,
something new
may bring
a little light.
— Season Ciechanowski
Season Ciechanowski has been a high school English teacher, an AmeriCorps member, a soccer coach, and native-plant landscaper. She and her husband live in Crafton. Her current passion is her poetry project #RedBrickPoetry. Many writers featured in Chapter & Verse are guests of Prosody, produced by Jan Beatty. Prosody airs every Saturday morning on WESA 90.5 FM.
This article appears in Dec 13-19, 2017.
