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Frank Steele

Bowling Green, Kentucky

Poet Frank Steele lives with his wife, Peggy, in Bowling Green, Kentucky. He was a professor at Western Kentucky University, and his poems have been featured in Ted Kooser’s “American Life in Poetry” and anthologized in The Poetry Home Repair Manual: Practical Advice for Beginning Poets (2007).

Column 176

Sunflower

By Frank Steele

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Part of a Legacy