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This poem is from the chapbook ALAS… by Susan Chiavelli (Finishing Line Press), and can be found at https://finishinglinepress.com/product/alas-by-susan-chiavelli/
Susan Chiavelli is a writer from Santa Barbara, California. Her award winning prose and poetry have appeared in The Los Angeles Review, SALT, Miramar, San Pedro River Review, The Packinghouse Review, Shoreline Voices, anthologies and elsewhere. She is the recipient of the Chattahoochee Review’s Lamar York Nonfiction Prize for “Death, Another Country,” also named a notable essay by Best American Essays. Speaking of Stories, a readers theater, has performed her short stories on stage.
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