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    A Dog Named Oney
    A Dog Named Oney
    A Dog Named Oney
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    A Dog Named Oney

    By David Weber

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    In this collection of 22 distinctive and expressive poems, David Weber, artist and composer, shares his reflections and the powerful imagery of a long life and lasting love, still lively, tender and turbulent.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWorthy Shorts
    Release dateNov 10, 2009
    ISBN9781935340546
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      A Dog Named Oney - David Weber

      A Dog Named Oney

      Poems

      By David Weber

      Smashwords Edition

      Copyright © by 2008 David Weber

      Published by Worthy Shorts

      The On-Line Private Press for Professionals

      on Smashwords

      Design and organizing elements copyright © 2008 by Worthy Shorts.

      Sale of this work in this imprint or design, except by Worthy Shorts or its agents, is prohibited.

      ISBN 978-1-935340-54-6

      WS114

      Worthy Shorts® is a trademark.

      For more information, visit www.WorthyShorts.com

      To Marlin and Daughters Susan, Nancy and Rebecca

      Table of Contents

      A Blasphemous, Megalomaniacal Extrapolation

      A Dog Named Oney

      Democracy

      Don't, Darling

      For J.L.

      How My Painting Teacher Failed Or, What Was Wrong With Me

      I Hope

      In Her Eyes

      Love Bread Song

      Manny

      Music for M

      Not a Poet

      One Sentence

      Pubescent Artist

      Retired

      Sermon

      Snapshots

      The Math of Love

      The Sadness of Loving

      This Morning

      Tomorrow I Will Be

      WWIII?

      A Dog Named

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