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Floating to shore...riding a low moon...on a slow cloud.

Nikki Giovanni

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Nikki Giovanni
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: June 7
Poet
Teacher
Writer
Knoxville
Tennessee
Yolande Cornelia Giovanni
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Shore
Slow
Clouds
Lows
Moon
Cloud
Floating
Riding

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