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		<title>&#8220;It&#8217;s Time,&#8221; a Poem by Zhu Yufu, Gets Him Seven Years</title>
		<link>http://www.allinoneboat.org/2012/02/11/its-time-a-poem-by-zhu-yufu-gets-him-seven-years/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2012 16:08:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Will Kirkland</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s time, people of China! It’s time. The Square belongs to everyone. With your own two feet It’s time to head to the Square and make your choice. &#160; It’s time, people of China! It’s time. A song belongs to everyone. From your own throat It’s time to voice the song in your heart. &#160; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dreamers &#8212; Siegfried Sassoon</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:55:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Will Kirkland</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been reading Pat Barker&#8217;s well thought of trilogy, Regeneration [Regeneration, The Eye in the Door, The Ghost Road]  about WW I veterans returned to England to be treated [and sent back to the trenches if possible] for what today we call PTSD [Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.]  Back then it was called &#8220;shell-shock&#8221; [thought to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Heron God</title>
		<link>http://www.allinoneboat.org/2012/01/18/heron-god/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 21:55:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Will Kirkland</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wondered as I watched the great Blue Heron fishing if he had a god , and if so did it look like him? Enormous wings across the sky, creator Heron, white crest flowing in eternal winds, feathered tip stretched out not quite touching first mortal of his making. Like our own Abrahamic God, so just [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tomas Transtromer: A Poet Cheered by Small Things</title>
		<link>http://www.allinoneboat.org/2011/12/03/tomas-transtromer-a-poet-cheered-by-small-things/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Dec 2011 21:33:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Will Kirkland</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I know you know that Tomas Transtromer, Sweden&#8217;t great poet, was awarded the 2011 Nobel Prize for Literature. But, my goodness! Have you tasted any? Storm The man on a walk suddenly meets the old giant oak like an elk turned to stone with its enormous antlers against the dark green castle wall of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>THE DESPAIR OF TURBINES</title>
		<link>http://www.allinoneboat.org/2011/12/01/the-despair-of-turbines/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 22:41:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Will Kirkland</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ I remember a photo of Uncle Bill beside a turbine.  He said he had a wide smile on. I couldn&#8217;t see it for the massive turbine housing, shaft and collar. He was so proud: as though he&#8217;d made it in his backyard and discovered America again. He showed me how he&#8217;d held the rivet gun [...]]]></description>
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		<title>After the Sea Broke</title>
		<link>http://www.allinoneboat.org/2011/11/23/after-the-sea-broke/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Nov 2011 00:55:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Will Kirkland</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After the sea broke the lighthouse went cold just when we needed it most&#8211; a white light filling with blues. The carbons grew shorter and and the days rang around like quoits of a terrible steel. With the marsh grass so close    That&#8217;s when you mentioned the effluent’s stench                  your love for me burned the moon&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blue Day With Man</title>
		<link>http://www.allinoneboat.org/2011/11/23/blue-with-man/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Nov 2011 00:40:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Will Kirkland</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[BLUE There is the ocean: blue, blue green, blue and more, a      blue and green and blue green blue blue green and white and green and gray; maroon. &#160; There are the heavens: blue, gray blue and blue and more gray blue and white of clouds and blue gray blue gray blue gray white of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Red Brocade: A Poem by Naomi Shihab Nye</title>
		<link>http://www.allinoneboat.org/2011/10/23/red-brocade-a-poem-by-naomi-shihab-nye/</link>
		<comments>http://www.allinoneboat.org/2011/10/23/red-brocade-a-poem-by-naomi-shihab-nye/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Oct 2011 17:45:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Will Kirkland</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A friend gave me Naomi Shihab Nye&#8216;s wonderful 19 Varieties of Gazelle  a month or so ago. I regularly use colored flags to mark paragraphs or pages of readings I like, in fiction, history or poetry.  It is very unusual to have the  &#8221;like a lot&#8221; tag on every page, but that&#8217;s the situation with Nye.  I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>You May Hold My Falcon</title>
		<link>http://www.allinoneboat.org/2011/09/17/5306/</link>
		<comments>http://www.allinoneboat.org/2011/09/17/5306/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Sep 2011 16:44:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Will Kirkland</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Visit Welcome to Abu Dhabi, the Minister of Culture said. You may hold my falcon as we visit. He slipped a leather band around my arm and urged the bird to step on board. It wore a shapely leather hood. Or otherwise, the host described, the bird might pluck out your very eyes. My very [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Poem from Egypt</title>
		<link>http://www.allinoneboat.org/2011/02/18/a-poem-from-egypt/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Feb 2011 21:01:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Will Kirkland</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Middle East]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ahmad Yamani]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[from The Utopia of Cemeteries Unpainted walls, stone filled ground fragile bones not even able to stand and my bones are stuck in the middle I am thinking of a small demonstration to protest against the angels who deprived us of the necessary calcium God is above the ditch extending His shadow over us and [...]]]></description>
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