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    Moon Poems
    Moon Poems
    Moon Poems
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    Moon Poems

    By Richard Diedrichs

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    Short, evocative poems celebrate the moon's magic in the truth of the present moment

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRichard Diedrichs
    Release dateJun 14, 2017
    ISBN9781370900770
    Moon Poems
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    Richard Diedrichs

    Richard Diedrichs grew up in Los Angeles. He edited travel and health magazines in Seattle, worked as an editor at the schools of Engineering and Public Health at the University of California, Berkeley, and then taught Fourth and Fifth grades and Kindergarten in public elementary schools in the San Francisco Bay Area. Richard has published novels, short stories, nonfiction and essays. He currently works as an assistant editor at Narrative Magazine. Richard lives in a beach town on the south central California coast.

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