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Chronic Leen Raats (bio) I'll just have to learn to live with itsaid the specialist who casually diagnosed an illnesswhich he didn't explain, which I had never heard ofbut from which I had been suffering for yearsand that maybe it was partly my own fault.I shouldn't have been so eager to live.Yet I refuse to believethat I am diminishing in value as I practicein feeling gratitude for the body that always hurts.On inconsolable November mornings, I lookat barren stalks guarding a harvested cornfieldlike soldiers in line. Soulless survivorsof a war against an elusive enemy.They, too, stay strong. End Page 135 Leen Raats Leen Raats (born in 1984) lives in Belgium. She runs a copywriting business, writing mainly about nature, landscapes and history. Ever since the day she first put a poem on a piece of paper, her life has a clear purpose: making this world just a little more beautiful through writing. She self-published books in Dutch and won several writing contests in Belgium and the Netherlands. Her English publications include 34 Orchard, ONE ART, Crannóg, Anthra Zine, Not One of Us and Descant. Find out more at www.leenraats.com/writer Copyright © 2024 Pleiades and Pleiades Press
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