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This poem is an excerpt from the chapbook Not Just Us by Eleanor Berry (Finishing Line Press), and can be found at https://www.finishinglinepress.com/product/not-just-us-by-eleanor-berry/
Eleanor Berry’s most recent poetry collection, Works of Wildfire, won the 2022 Grayson Books Chapbook Award. Previous publications include Green November (Traprock Books, 2007), No Constant Hues (Turnstone Books of Oregon, 2015), and Only So Far (Main Street Rag, 2019). A past president of the Oregon Poetry Association and the National Federation of State Poetry Societies, Berry holds a Ph.D. from the University of Toronto and taught literature and writing at colleges and universities in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, as well as Willamette University in Salem, Oregon. Over several decades, she has been active in organizing community literary and arts activities everywhere she has lived.
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