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Kate Schapira is the author of four full-length books of poetry, most recently The Soft Place (Horse Less Press, 2012), and seven chapbooks. She lives in Providence, where she teaches writing to college and elementary school students and co-runs the Publicly Complex Reading Series.
Melanie Abandon
To ward and tend genius, just name it. You
can’t know how it falls together.
Someone was sitting in the chandelier
folded up like a pamphlet, math
she could almost describe in words everyone took
up like a ball and caught. I understood her.
I have one of her proofs, knowing now what I
couldn’t before. I carry it with me. Always. I met
her when she had no idea what she had. No idea.
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