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    Lawn Party
    Lawn Party
    Lawn Party
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    Lawn Party

    By Charles Hibbard

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    Twenty-three more poems about human life, love, death, and the natural world.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCharles Hibbard
    Release dateJun 30, 2018
    ISBN9780463210826
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      Lawn Party - Charles Hibbard

      Lawn Party

      Poems

      Charles Hibbard

      Smashwords Edition

      Copyright 2018 Charles Hibbard

      Smashwords Edition, License Notes

      Thank you for downloading this book. You are welcome to share it with your friends. This book may be reproduced, copied, and distributed for non-commercial purposes, provided the book remains in its complete original form.

      Table of Contents

      1. Wedding Film

      2. Daybreak

      3. Nature Sanctuary

      4. Tombeau de Couperin

      5. Too Many Worlds

      6. A Marriage

      7. Recombinancy

      8. October

      9. Some Season

      10. Robert Street Bridge II

      11. Little Legends

      12. Selinunte

      13. Semiprecious

      14. After Life

      15. Yorick at the Multiplex

      16. Extreme Osteophagy

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