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This poem is from the chapbook My Mother’s Hands by cory brown (Finishing Line Press), and can be found at https://www.finishinglinepress.com/product/my-mothers-hands-by-cory-brown/
My Mother’s Hands is Cory Brown’s sixth collection of poems. His last three—What May Be Lost, elisions, and A Long Slow Climb—are from Cayuga Lake Books. His first book was published by Swallow’s Tale Press upon winning their national contest. His poems have appeared in Bomb, Nimrod International, West Branch, Northwest Review, Arroyo, The Fiddlehead, Postmodern Culture, Cloudbank, december, LitMag, Mudfish, Oberon Poetry, The Comstock Review, and many others. His essays have appeared in South Loop Review, Journal of Narrative Politics, and Writing on the Edge. He grew up in western Oklahoma and took an M.F.A. from Cornell University in 1984, where he studied with Archie Ammons and Robert Morgan. He retired from Ithaca College’s Writing Department in 2023. He lives in Trumansburg, New York, outside of Ithaca.
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