The Shared Credit

by The Quiet Voice

Original EveryPoem Studio house-voice poem.

The report reaches the table with one name on its cover and twelve people inside it: research gathered, figures checked, questions sharpened, sentences cut, a mistake caught at midnight. Before presenting, she adds a page that names every contribution. Leadership is sometimes making the invisible work visible before applause begins.
50 words · 14 lines · Free Verse
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