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Barbara Ryersen

Barbara Ryersen

Barbara Ryersen, filmaker

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5.

Joy is a piercing note,
so sharp
it’s hard to catch.

But who would want to catch it?
Not me.

For it is that sharpness –
that instantaneous stretch for all,
that makes me
cry and laugh together.




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