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Robyn MacKinnon·March 29, 2020

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Out of This City

written by: Robyn MacKinnon

@art_rat

out of this city

leave some love for the others

to the wilderness

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Robyn MacKinnon

I am mostly a visual artist, but I like to create "found poetry", specifically daily haiku made from the statuses of my Facebook friends. It was my Mom who started this, and officially passed the responsibility onto me when she became too busy.

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