Weekend #3

Robyn MacKinnonDecember 8, 2019

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Weekend #3

written by: Robyn MacKinnon

@art_rat

FIREWORKS ARE STILL

candy hiding in my purse…

Weekend #3

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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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