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Patrick Kennedy

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Patrick Kennedy is a library specialist and an antiquarian bookseller. His poetry has appeared in the literary journals Blue Unicorn, The Road Not Taken, The Rotary Dial, The Literary Hatchet, Whistling Shade, Neologism, and Allegro.

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the wildflowers
agreeing with it

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rainbows

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Comic Poems (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Series)

by Peter Washington

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