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This poem is from the book The Last Flame Last by Lesléa Newman (Finishing Line Press), and can be found at https://finishinglinepress.com/product/the-last-flame-last-by-leslea-newman/
Lesléa Newman has created 90 books for readers of all ages including the memoirs-in-verse, I Carry My Mother and I Wish My Father, and the novel-in-verse, October Mourning: A Song for Matthew Shepard.She is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts poetry fellowship and a past poet laureate of Northampton, MA.
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