title: The Seagull Reader: Poems (Second Edition)
author: Joseph Kelly
description: Joseph Kelly (PhD, University of Texas, Austin) is Professor of English at the College of Charleston. He is the author of America's Longest Siege: Charleston, Slavery, and the Slow March to Civil War and Our Joyce: From Outcast to Icon.
zlib_text: > > THE LONELY SEAGULL
  
  > R. MARSHALL WRIGHT
  
  > COPYRIGHT
  
  Copyright © 2021 by R. Marshall Wright
  
  All rights reserved.
  
  No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or
  mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without
  written permission from the author, except for the use of brief quotations in
  a book review.
  
  Cover by Krystine Kercher
  
  Scripture Quotations:
  
  Good News Translation—Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible
  Society.
  
  Holy Bible, New International Version, NIV, Copyright 1973, 198, 1984 by
  International Bible Society.
  
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  > DEDICATION
  
   _I'm dedicating this book to a good friend I've never met._ _ **Donna
  Krecklow**_ _has been on my Launch Team for about a year and a half and has
  been a tremendous asset. And for The Lonely Seagull, she was my muse._
  
  _I was stuck after three chapters because I was reading a Nicholas Sparks
  book, and