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Rhoda Janzen is the author of the poetry collection Babel's Stair (Word Press, 2006) and the memoir Mennonite in a Little Black Dress (Henry Holt and Company, 2009). She teaches at Hope College.
Originally appeared in Poetry magazine.
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