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      March 8, 2023ScintillaJeanne Yu

      One of the reasons I fell in love
      with my husband is every once
      in a while, he uses a word I read
      somewhere, but I had never heard
      out loud.
       
      It wasn’t I was so impressed with
      his vocabulary as I was impressed
      that I felt he was very ordinarily
      valiant in trying to rescue these
      words, those that were harder to
      say, or had more nuanced meaning
      or because it often took effort to
      think of them, and through no
      fault of their own, had lost their
      way and were fading into
      obsolescence.
       
      Never was he boastful about this
      gallantry, nor did he overthink it,
      he just in no extraordinary way
      hunted momentarily and rather
      than offering his handkerchief
      as he often did, he would instead
      gently pull out a salvaged word
      and place it in that perfect
      moment before sunset
      so we could hear it aloud
      together, one more time.

      from #78 – Poetry Prize

      Jeanne Yu

      “I write to make sense of life in this world … and to make sure I am paying attention to the little things that matter as well as the big things, because I have come to know they are all connected. I’m an engineer, mom, and environmentalist, every day trying my best—some days are harder than others—to live from a place of my hope for the world.”