Doubts I had while writing poems about my dad's death
My Dad on the Dark Side of the Moon
Notes From the Margin with Wendy Pratt
Author of THE GHOST LAKE (memoir), BLACKBIRD SINGING AT DUSK (poetry). Fellow of the Folger Shakespeare Library. Northern type.
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