Faith Will Emphasize the Second Syllable.

• Author: Ducet, Sadie
• Position: Poem

Faith Will Emphasize the Second Syllable Tonight I'm driving with the wipers and the defrost on, considering how to write about a friend's poems, as a fine-grained snow-rain falls across Wisconsin. Dusting of magic under the streetlights, sparkle, sprinkle, glitter like the pink sugar I shook onto cupcakes not three weeks ago, this night a wide-eyed, breathless maybe as rare as a little girl's six year old birthday. And not three weeks ago, the teachers marched a first day and I had not yet considered unions, much. Unknown but to a handful, Shelly's poems clear their small silence in the air like breath on a frosty night. They burn and drip with her desire for Sofya, wisdom, which in Shelly's case translated to an urge to understand, to peel back until we reach an elemental vision... I work for days trying to say it right. I take cupcakes to the classroom and oranges to the protesters because I have...