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    Miss Lena Raven and Other Poems
    Miss Lena Raven and Other Poems
    Miss Lena Raven and Other Poems
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    Miss Lena Raven and Other Poems

    By Thomas M. McDade

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    Fifty poems steeped the human predicament, displaying in diverse ways, its demons, saviors and whimsies. Stop by for a coffee at Andy's Diner or Laura's Luncheonette. A drink at the Canopy Club, taste Olympia's fromage. Fill your lungs with smoke in Sarajevo. Visit the Sleeping Giant and Castle Craig. Fall in love with Lena.
    The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
    --W. Somerset Maugham

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherThomas M. McDade
    Release dateNov 16, 2016
    ISBN9781370545742
    Miss Lena Raven and Other Poems
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    Thomas M. McDade

    Thomas M. McDade is a seventy-seven-year-old former programmer/analyst residing in Fredericksburg, VA, previously, in CT & RI. He's married, has no kids, and no pets. McDade is a 1973 graduate of Fairfield University. He served two tours of duty in the U.S. Navy. tommmcd2000@yahoo.com

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      Miss Lena Raven and Other Poems - Thomas M. McDade

      Title Page & Licensing Notes

      Miss Lena Raven

      By Thomas M. McDade

      Smashwords Edition

      Copyright 2016 Thomas M. McDade

      Smashwords Edition, License Notes

      This e-book is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This e-book may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      Acknowledgements

      Special thanks to the following publications that have published many of these poems: 265 Degrees of Grey, Barr’s Postcard News, Bitterzoet, Blind Horse Review, Bluepepper (AU), Catbird Seat, Catalyst, Chance Magazine, Crystal Drum, Dirigible, Experimental Forest, Freefall, Gadfly, Higginsville Reader, Jack Magazine, Mind in Motion, Nerve Cowboy, Our Wounds (Pikestaff Press), Overview, Panhandler, Paper Salad, Pawtucket Times, Poem, Poetry Fly, Potpourri, Quercus Review, Slipstream, Socet Tuum, The Moon, Tight, Unprecedented Review, Unwound, Weyfarers, Window Panes

      Poems (1-30)

      Miss Lena Raven

      Wind Plays

      Bowls

      Ingredients

      Outlaw Toys

      Off Route 34

      Short Poems – 1

      Short Poems – 2

      Black Shoe

      Lunar Feeding

      Valley Forge

      At the Bus Stop

      The Door

      Faulkner & Dickens

      Good Suburban Soil

      Siren

      Charlie Donn

      In The Year 2525

      Alive

      Rustic Living

      The Whitest Heat

      Extra, 1976

      Dance Lessons

      Tubes

      Like Magic

      Snow Beat

      What Sets the Sun

      Sabbath Contraption

      Luncheon

      Litter

      Poems (31-50)

      Grandparents

      Doorstop

      Cannoball

      Steel Shot Zone

      Mother Fog

      Wind and Sand

      Mythic Alms

      The Last Episode

      The World

      Arbor Day

      Redemption

      Dylan’s Last Medicine

      Vinnie’s Girls

      Petal Smoke

      Hal Lives

      Corpse Work

      A Student’s Williams, Yeats…

      Sarajevo Smoke Break

      Among Thieves

      Summit View

      Miss Lena Raven

      1009 North Fair Oaks Avenue

      Pasadena, California

      Hello Lynx, the 1928 post card starts,

      (It’s the Victoria Bridge in Montreal.)

      I’m here for a while.

      Nice, lovely town.

      Plenty of booze

      and French girls.

      Will answer

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