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Another Morning Like All Others


   


The violinist is playing out his little stories again

The bus belches

Traffic rolls up and down

Wightman like the dawn



I should scrub my bathroom

Tub coated in a grime coat

I am not a fraud. My hair is long.

The violinist practices

The allegro movement of a concerto on the porch

Three stones from Lake Michigan

Arranged on the sill in a line. You can teach your fingers

What to do. You can teach your mind

How to love.



Margaret Saigh is a writer, dancer, and educator. She is the author of the chapbook CROSSED IN THE DARKER LIGHT OF TERROR (dancing girl press 2022), a graduate of the MFA program at the University of Pittsburgh, and the creator of circlet, a virtual poetry workshop. Her poems have been featured in Peach Mag, Plainsongs, and Figure 1, and are forthcoming in Calyx Journal and Exposition Review, among others.