This poem is from the chapbook Life Travels by Tina Harrach Denetclaw (Finishing Line Press), and can be found at https://www.finishinglinepress.com/product/life-travels-by-tina-harrach-denetclaw/
Tina Harrach Denetclaw is a clinical pharmacist by trade. Her poetry and creative nonfiction have appeared in Eclectica Magazine, Silver Birch Press | Poetry and Prose…from Prompts Series, The RavensPerch, Leading the Way: The Wisdom of the Navajo People, Synkroniciti, and Pulse: Voices from the Heart of Medicine. She was a semi-finalist for the Brett Elizabeth Jenkins Poetry Prize, and in the Finishing Line Press 2025 Open Chapbook Competition. She and her Dinè (Navajo) husband live in Northern California where her husband is a biology professor, first reader of her poems, and favorite muse for her writing. They have five cats.
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