Earlier, Jane Kenyon
entered a conversation, both omen and curse.
So many poems begin after diagnosis, many of yours,
and now, all of mine. Lady Jane, our oracle of otherwise,
remind me to slow down. I am in no hurry—any longer—
to get where I am going.
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Allison Blevins (she/her) is a queer disabled writer and the author of five chapbooks and four collections. Winner of the 2023 Lexi Rudnitsky Editor’s Choice Award and the 2022 Laux/Millar Poetry Prize, Allison serves as the Publisher of Small Harbor Publishing and lives in Minnesota with her spouse and three children. allisonblevins.com
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