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This poem is from the book Difficult Music by Stephen A. Allen (Finishing Line Press), and can be found at https://finishinglinepress.com/product/difficult-music-by-stephen-a-allen/
Stephen A. Allen was born and raised in Vermont and currently lives in Michigan. He has an MA from the University of Illinois at Chicago and degrees from Amherst College and the University of Notre Dame. His poetry has appeared most recently in MacQueen’s Quinterly, Modern Haiku, Northern New England Review, and Rattle.
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