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    If You Shut Your Eyes, You'll Hear Some Cosmic Verse
    If You Shut Your Eyes, You'll Hear Some Cosmic Verse
    If You Shut Your Eyes, You'll Hear Some Cosmic Verse
    Audiobook29 minutes

    If You Shut Your Eyes, You'll Hear Some Cosmic Verse

    Written by Ellen Palestrant

    Narrated by Ellen Palestrant

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    About this audiobook

    In If You Shut Your Eyes, You'll Hear Some Cosmic Verse, a collection of poems to be enjoyed by all ages, you will enter New Worlds of Possibility that are dreamlike, imaginative, humorous, lyrical, and thought-provoking. Poems from and inspired by The World of Glimpse, written and illustrated by Ellen Palestrant. A theatrical audio treat for people that will make you smile, laugh and get up and dance.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherEP Creative Enterprises
    Release dateAug 16, 2021
    ISBN9781667059631
    If You Shut Your Eyes, You'll Hear Some Cosmic Verse

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