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This poem is from the chapbook The Language of Two by Jean Flanagan (Finishing Line Press), and can be found at https://finishinglinepress.com/product/the-language-of-two-by-jean-flanagan/
Jean Flanagan is the author of two books of poetry: Ibbetson Street (Garden Street Press) and Black Lightning (Cedar Hill Books). Her forthcoming book A Hard Winter for Living will be published by Cervena Barva Press in 2026. Flanagan is a volunteer coordinator for “Changing Lives Through Literature” an alternative sentencing program in Massachusetts. She is one of the founders of the Arlington Center for the Arts and the current Poet Laureate of Arlington, Massachusetts.
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