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This poem is from the book Leave My Soul Alone by Jack Coulehan (Finishing Line Press), and can be found at https://finishinglinepress.com/product/leave-my-soul-alone-by-jack-coulehan/
Jack Coulehan is a Senior Fellow of the Center for Medical Humanities, Compassionate Care, and Bioethics at Stony Brook University’s Renaissance School of Medicine. Jack’s poems and essays appear frequently in health care journals and literary magazines, and his work is widely anthologized. He is the author of eight collections of poetry, including The Talking Cure: New and Selected Poems (2020).
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