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Benjamin Garcia is a Community Health Specialist who provides HIV/HCV/STD and opioid overdose prevention education to higher risk communities throughout New York’s Finger Lakes region. He is a CantoMundo Fellow and a graduate of Cornell University’s MFA program. He was named the 2017 Latin@ Scholar at the Frost Place. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Kenyon Review Online, Best New Poets 2016, As/Us, Gulf Coast, West Branch Wired, The Collagist, and PANK.
In the language of flowers // I am the one who says // fuck you
I won’t be anyone’s nosegay // this Mary is her own // talking bouquet
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