Artist Trust/Edge Reading, April 17, 2013

Seattle is a place to blossom as we turn the pages of our lives,
an ideal place to grow into crone-hood.
– Faye Reitman

Eighteen cross-genre writers
reading five minutes each
take turns lavishing
personal idiosyncrasies
and tone
on a packed house
of language lovers.

I ask the woman sitting next to me,
tears streaming down her face.
why she’s crying
and she says:

They’re so good,
They’ve worked hard
and I’m proud of them.

I squeeze her hand
and the two of us hug
as if we knew
each other
long before
today.

My friend Faye
up from California
says:

I heard Seattle
was a reading town
But I didn’t know
it was a place to blossom
in the basement of a book store
or on someone else’s unseen page.
I think I’ll move here.

And she did.

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