The Winning Side by Tamara Madison

The Winning Side

Here in the shadow of the world’s joy
let us find calm
Let us cool our blistered skin
in joy’s sweet shade
Among time’s soiled leaves
let me find your hand
For sorrow is a common thing
and joy its common underside
In this moment at least
let us turn the coin of our time
to where the shadow
of the world’s joy moves aside
and lifts us giddy
into bright and laughing air

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Tamara Madison is the author of three full-length volumes of poetry, “Wild Domestic”, “Moraine” (both from Pearl Editions) and “Morpheus Dips His Oar” (Sheila-Na-Gig Editions), and two chapbooks, “The Belly Remembers” (Pearl Editions) and “Along the Fault Line” (Picture Show Press). Her work has appeared in Chiron Review, Your Daily Poem, the Writer’s Almanac, Sheila-Na-Gig, Worcester Review, ONE ART, and many other publications. More about Tamara can be found at tamaramadisonpoetry.com.