KNEE BRACE PRESS

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Author: Jean Janicke

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  • A white woman with shoulder-length light brown hair stands in a garden. She is smiling and wearing a blue dress with short sleeves.

    Jean Janicke is an economist, leadership coach, writer and dancer. She is legally blind and lives in Washington, DC. Her work has appeared on MockingHeart Review, Last Stanza, and Green Ink Poetry.

  • Try Not to Blink

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    This poem by Jean Janicke reflects on hours at the National Eye Institute in a “natural history study” for her type of blindness.