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    The Midwest: In Five Parts and Other Poems
    The Midwest: In Five Parts and Other Poems
    The Midwest: In Five Parts and Other Poems
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    The Midwest: In Five Parts and Other Poems

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    The Midwest: In Five Parts and Other Poems is a compilation of poetry book with haiku.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherXlibris US
    Release dateAug 27, 2014
    ISBN9781499058888
    The Midwest: In Five Parts and Other Poems

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      The Midwest - Xlibris US

      Copyright © 2014 by Lynne Proctor Sancken

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2014915025

      ISBN:

      Softcover       9781499058871

      Hardcover      9781499058864

      EBook            9781499058888

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced

      or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or

      mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any

      information storage and retrieval system, without permission in

      writing from the copyright owner.

      Rev. date: 08/19/2014

      Xlibris LLC

      1-888-795-4274

      www.Xlibris.com

      CONTENTS

      Prairie Trees

      Love Poem

      Poem

      Hospital

      Reuben, Six Days Old (July 25, 1987)

      Cornlife

      Firework

      Planting Time

      Growing Sweetcorn

      The Midwest

      Water

      For Doug

      Haiku

      Haiku

      Iris Stalk

      Three For Spring

      Summerpoem

      Trees

      Another Autumn

      Spring Wash

      Christmas Eve In Illinois, 1984

      Picking Strawberries

      Making A Park

      For Grace, Nursing

      First Frost

      Cutting Wood

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