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This poem is from the chapbook RELEARNING THE BODY by Carlene M. Gadapee (Finishing Line Press), and can be found at https://www.finishinglinepress.com/product/relearning-the-body-by-carlene-m-gadapee/
Poet and teacher Carlene M. Gadapee’s body of work includes her chapbook, What to Keep (Finishing Line Press, 2025), and many poems and reviews found in anthologies and journals including Allium, Smoky Quartz, Touchstone, MockingOwl Roost, Vox Populi, and MicroLit Almanac. Carlene lives and works in northern New Hampshire, where she and her husband have a yard full of fruit trees and a busy beehive.
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