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This poem is from the book House of Broken Tables by Allison Wilkins – WINNER of the 2025 Donna Wolf-Palacio Poetry Prize (Finishing Line Press), and can be found at https://finishinglinepress.com/product/house-of-broken-tables-by-allison-wilkins-winner-of-the-2025-donna-wolf-palacio-poetry-prize/
Allison Wilkins is the author of Girl Who (2014) and her poetry and nonfiction have appeared in Sierra Magazine, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Superstition Review, Birmingham Poetry Review, Michigan Quarterly Review and elsewhere. She is the assistant director for Writing Workshops in Greece: Thessaloniki and Thasos.
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