This poem is from the book The Only One in the Room with White Socks by Michael Northen (Finishing Line Press), and can be found at https://www.finishinglinepress.com/product/the-only-one-in-the-room-with-white-socks-by-michael-northen/
Michael Northen is the founder and past editor of Wordgathering (2007-2019). He was co-editor of two anthologies of disability writing Beauty is a Verb (2011) and The Right Way to Be Crippled and Naked (2011) both from Cinco Puntos and is currently editing a new anthology of disability poetry Every Place on the Earth is Disabled to be published by Northwestern University Press in 2026.
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