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b'This week on READ TO ME, we read the poem TREATMENT by Kirun Kapur.

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Wild. It\\u2019s wild. Reading this poem, I feel a gathering up of my attention all along the front of my body \\u2014 like I was a slack windsock that\\u2019s suddenly full and taut with wind.

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And then that wind plays me, tosses me around into wryness and laughter, and then into devastation, and into intimacy \\u2014

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into the straight hard line of a story and through circular eddies of a scene that doesn\\u2019t have a beginning or end \\u2014

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so that by the end the skin along my arms feels taut, too, my heart feels open and pouring, my low belly is feeling a kind of drum beat of something like authority, or inevitability, and somehow a finch is singing on top of my head too.

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Wild, right? Wild, courtesy of Kirun Kapur.

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For more info about this book and to read Becky\'s thoughts, visit here: https://www.readtomepod.com/season2episodes/kirun-kapur\\xa0