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Robyn MacKinnon·June 3, 2018

Poetry English Robyn Finds Poetry Robyn MacKinnon

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This publication is part 106 of 469 in the series Robyn Finds Poetry

The Visit

found poetry

written by: Robyn MacKinnon

@art_rat

a good thunderstorm

Getting drunk by candlelight

Thanks for the visit

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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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