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The Mayport Sonnets

The Mayport Sonnets

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Jul 17, 2021
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Introduction. These poems were all written 1989 to 1991 while I was assigned to the USS Luce, guided missile destroyer that was homeported in Mayport, Florida, hence the name, The Mayport Sonnets. The first two, #1 and #2 were god-awful and I left them off. There are more details in my memoir project chapter from the period here: https://raymond945.sub…

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