Poetic Obituaries: My mother [Margaret Dorothy Killam Atwood] loved

to read aloud: All three of her children got the benefit. She was a hilarious storyteller and an alarming mimic, although, unlike her sister Joyce Barkhouse, the children's author, she had no interest in writing. She composed only one poem in her life: It was about flying, the kind with wings, a feat she never accomplished.

from Globe and Mail: Margaret Dorothy Killam Atwood

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