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PORTSIDE CULTURE
LAUGHTER
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Joanne Durham
August 5, 2024
New Verse News
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_ “You can tell a lot by a laugh,” said a certain Republican
politician, and a laugh may set you free! _
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LAUGHTER
By Joanne Durham
_in honor of Kamala Harris_
Laughter leaps borders.
Laughter releases bitterness from my tongue.
Is it a crazy laugh or laughter for a crazy world?
_You can tell a lot by a laugh*._
Laughter doesn’t need to sit at the head of the table.
You can’t bulldoze laughter.
Laughter loosens clenched fists.
Laugh me into your fear. Who laughs alone?
Infinite peals of laughter fit on the head of a pin.
Rain of laughter bathes a breathless sky.
Belly laughter lightens the mind.
Children aching from laughter never forget that joy.
A woman’s laughter sings, _I am more than sorrow_.
If laughter is a cackle, please, bewitch us.
*Comment by Harris’s Republican opponent for 2024 Presidential
election.
Joanne Durham is a retired educator living in the swing state of North
Carolina, where laughter is an important part of keeping up the fight.
She is the author of _To Drink from a Wider Bowl_, winner of the
Sinclair Poetry Prize (Evening Street Press 2022), and the chapbook,
_On Shifting Shoals_ (Kelsay Books 2023). Her poems appear in _Poetry
South, Vox Populi, Writers Resist, The Inflectionist Review_ and many
other journals and anthologies.
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