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    Milkmoney
    Milkmoney
    Milkmoney
    Ebook28 pages24 minutes

    Milkmoney

    By Ronald Ray

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    Dark and surreal, light and whimsical, emotional... a sampling of my free verse work.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRonald Ray
    Release dateJun 25, 2013
    ISBN9781301122653
    Milkmoney
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    Ronald Ray

    Ronald Ray is a mainly self-taught poet and visual artist. His work tends towards the emotional, but he also enjoys the surreal and whimsical side of writing. His work has appeared in several magazines and for the last two years in Taft College’s yearly anthology ‘A Sharp Piece of Awesome’. He has three self-published volumes of poetry through Lulu Press. (‘Clocks and Crows’, ‘’Black Clowns, Stars & Seizures’ and ‘Barking At Random’.) He currently resides in Rockford, IL.

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