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    Mooncalf
    Mooncalf
    Mooncalf
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    Mooncalf

    By J Thomas Brown and Jimmy Warner

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    Mooncalf: Suggesting misshapen. Or a fool, not belonging. It is a quest for perfection that is not found. In this collection you will find joy, satire, pathos, magic, and the goblin spirit, duende. Some of the poems come from dreams, some from close encounters with the bending sickle. The closer the chine, the truer the line. In 2011 it cam

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherFenghuang Publishing
    Release dateAug 8, 2019
    ISBN9780578556925
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    J Thomas Brown

    J. Thomas Brown grew up moving, then finally settled down in Richmond, Virginia, with a family of his own. His father, an IBM© executive during the Golden Age of American Capitalism, had the wanderlust and transferred up and down the U.S. East Coast, to Sweden, England, France, and back again.

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