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This poem is from the book Tracks in Snow by Thaddeus Rutkowski (Finishing Line Press), and can be found at https://www.finishinglinepress.com/product/tracks-in-snow-by-thaddeus-rutkowski/
Thaddeus Rutkowski grew up in central Pennsylvania. He is the author of eight previous books of prose and poetry, most recently Safe Colors: A Novel in Short Fictions. His novel Haywire won the members’ choice award from the Asian American Writers’ Workshop. He teaches at Medgar Evers College/City University of New York and at a YMCA. He received a fiction writing fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts and a Best Small Fictions award.
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