the place through the trees

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James Diaz (They/Them) is the author of This Someone I Call Stranger, (Indolent Books, 2018) and All Things Beautiful Are Bent (Alien Buddha, 2021) as well as the founding editor of Anti-Heroin Chic. Their work has appeared or is forthcoming in Thrush Poetry, Corporeal, The Madrigal, The Lumiere Review, Rust + Moth, Selcouth Station, Apricity and Wrong Doing Mag. They live in upstate New York.