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Nicole Brooks is a writer and editor in Indiana. She’s had a long career in communications and is currently an MFA student at Butler University in Indianapolis, concentrating on poetry. She served as poetry editor of Booth. She teaches dance and lives in Lafayette, Ind., with her husband and daughter. Her poems have appeared in Minola Review, Flying Island, and in the New Rivers Press book Visiting Bob: Poems Inspired by the Life and Work of Bob Dylan.
Nicole, this was so beautiful and evocative. I loved how the desire to protect and the desire to free came together in this poem. Loved it!