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This poem is from the chapbook Body of Work by Rowe Carenen (Finishing Line Press), and can be found at https://www.finishinglinepress.com/product/body-of-work-by-rowe-carenen/
Rowe Carenen is a graduate of Salem College and the University of Southern Mississippi. Her poems have appeared in various literary journals and magazines, including the eighth issue of Oyster River Pages, Womanly Mag, The Revenant Culture, GERM, Terrible Orange Review, the Running with Water anthology, and her first collection, In the Meantime, was published by Neverland Publishing in 2014. Unsolicited Press published her best-selling second collection of poetry, First Drafts from the Brewery, in April of 2022. She lives in Greenville, SC, with her husband, a turtle, a menagerie of cats, and Neville Jameson, their rescue boxer/pittie mix.
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