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	<title>May 2009</title>
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		<title>Lost Child</title>
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		<description> it's summer and

I lay motionless.



the dogs are barking again,

howling and bending their pitch,

great snapping jaws opening wide

to prey upon carnal memory.



it makes animals of us,

the way rough hands part

prepubescent thighs,

tiny fists pounding on

sweatslick skin, and a

heartbeat that screams

no,

       no,

              no,

with every thrust.



when enough blood has been

spilled, the dogs grow bored,

licking their jaws, teeth twisting

and gnashing, until I can hear

that calm whisper,

&quot;I'll kill you if you ever tell&quot;.  ... more  </description>
		<dc:creator>Jasmine Mann</dc:creator>
		<category>Jasmine's Poetry</category>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2009 04:45:38 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title>When all the rivers ran south</title>
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		<description>~it doesn't get any easier~</description>
		<dc:creator>Suter Bill</dc:creator>
		<category>The imPersonal Space of rws</category>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Jun 2009 23:32:38 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title>Amor y Otro Contusiones</title>
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		<description>Stigmata Diabolic/Faux Canadian</description>
		<dc:creator>Mercieca, Andrew</dc:creator>
		<category>MosquitoBytes Volume 12: Rex Deus Ressurectio - 2008-2009</category>
		<pubDate>Sun, 31 May 2009 18:00:48 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title>Set and Magdalene</title>
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		<description>Stigmata Diabolic/Faux Canadian</description>
		<dc:creator>Mercieca, Andrew</dc:creator>
		<category>MosquitoBytes Volume 12: Rex Deus Ressurectio - 2008-2009</category>
		<pubDate>Sun, 31 May 2009 02:08:31 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title>Moloch Horridus</title>
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		<description>Stigmata Diabolic</description>
		<dc:creator>Mercieca, Andrew</dc:creator>
		<category>MosquitoBytes Volume 12: Rex Deus Ressurectio - 2008-2009</category>
		<pubDate>Sat, 30 May 2009 10:22:11 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title>Shade of Desire</title>
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		<description>Luanne</description>
		<dc:creator>Mercieca, Andrew</dc:creator>
		<category>MosquitoBytes Volume 12: Rex Deus Ressurectio - 2008-2009</category>
		<pubDate>Sat, 30 May 2009 05:03:41 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title>absence is persistent</title>
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		<description> i.

i am tempted

by the momentum of hands

and the possibilites fingers hold

when pressed lightly 

on heavy shoulders



because &quot;alone&quot; 

has teeth these days



ii.

i haven't written in months

and i need to wage a war

against logic

against the cruelty of 



puncuation  



because somehow i can breath

in the freedom of a run on sentance

 

iii.

i will not write of tears

memory or half empty beds at 

two thirty a.m.



because realization feels 

too much like an epilouge 



and i haven't the language



iv.

it should have been smaller

the moment where weakness became

another word for fucking just

for promise of heat



and that truth will 

leave a mark



v.

i am jealous

of writers whos words 

never betray them



mine have gutted me

because absence is persistent 



and i struggle to find a single

harsh word to cut you

deep enough 

   ... more  </description>
		<dc:creator> Amanda Baker</dc:creator>
		<category>But April brought rain</category>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 15:33:44 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title>In passing</title>
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		<description>He has changed meto the fondness of him

I have his handsat midnightcrouched in the whisperthat betrays my voice

He grits his teethagainst the boneI borrowed of him

holding my eyesin the burden of lightwhere intrusive shadows dream aloud</description>
		<dc:creator>Someday In May</dc:creator>
		<category>But April brought rain</category>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 04:55:17 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title>Spring just brings longer days</title>
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		<description>I found a bit of winterthat had been left behindin the shades of greyand peeling paint ofmy upstairs window sill.

It's husky whisper wasmuted by the buzzingof spring's haughty arrivalwith lengthening of days,and rain.

I wept under my breathfor winter's resignation

and this bitternessit left behind</description>
		<dc:creator>Somday In May</dc:creator>
		<category>But April brought rain</category>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 04:49:01 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title>Her</title>
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		<description> I did love her.

Though I never distanced myself

far enough to utter it aloud.



I watched her 

ready herself to delight the boys.

She was a venture they all

rallied themselves around 

awkward and hard for her

rejection.



In her stillness,

we talked of miseries, dreams.

I brushed her hair out of tangle 

and expectation so again

she could laze in shades that

perhaps I had placed her in.



She was everything 

sun-soaked and delicate

that I longed to comprehend.

There was no perfection about her

but her smile was a sermon

  
 and I prayed for every breath.  ... more  </description>
		<dc:creator>Amanda Baker</dc:creator>
		<category>Sometimes...it just is</category>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 04:45:58 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title>Caress</title>
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		<description>Diaphanous Heliotrope</description>
		<dc:creator>Mercieca, Andrew</dc:creator>
		<category>MosquitoBytes Volume 07: Irradiated mDNA Retrovirus - 2006</category>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 22:43:22 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title>Inalienable</title>
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		<description>Diaphanous Heliotrope</description>
		<dc:creator>Mercieca, Andrew</dc:creator>
		<category>MosquitoBytes Volume 07: Irradiated mDNA Retrovirus - 2006</category>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 22:42:17 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title>Predicate</title>
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		<description>Diaphanous Heliotrope</description>
		<dc:creator>Mercieca, Andrew</dc:creator>
		<category>MosquitoBytes Volume 07: Irradiated mDNA Retrovirus - 2006</category>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 22:41:12 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title>Done</title>
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		<description>Diaphanous Heliotrope</description>
		<dc:creator>Mercieca, Andrew</dc:creator>
		<category>MosquitoBytes Volume 07: Irradiated mDNA Retrovirus - 2006</category>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 22:39:19 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title>Unexpected</title>
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		<description>Diaphanous Heliotrope</description>
		<dc:creator>Mercieca, Andrew</dc:creator>
		<category>MosquitoBytes Volume 07: Irradiated mDNA Retrovirus - 2006</category>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 22:37:46 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title>Dorsal</title>
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		<description>Diaphanous Heliotrope</description>
		<dc:creator>Mercieca, Andrew</dc:creator>
		<category>MosquitoBytes Volume 07: Irradiated mDNA Retrovirus - 2006</category>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 22:36:26 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title>Awash</title>
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		<description>Diaphanous Heliotrope</description>
		<dc:creator>Mercieca, Andrew</dc:creator>
		<category>MosquitoBytes Volume 07: Irradiated mDNA Retrovirus - 2006</category>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 22:35:10 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title>Crowded House</title>
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		<description>Diaphanous Heliotrope</description>
		<dc:creator>Mercieca, Andrew</dc:creator>
		<category>MosquitoBytes Volume 07: Irradiated mDNA Retrovirus - 2006</category>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 22:33:30 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title>Distraught</title>
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		<description>Diaphanous Heliotrope</description>
		<dc:creator>Mercieca, Andrew</dc:creator>
		<category>MosquitoBytes Volume 07: Irradiated mDNA Retrovirus - 2006</category>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 22:31:51 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title>From the Comfort of Matrimony</title>
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		<description>   
In hazy shadows of three am 
Warm, sleepy body rolls, 
Meets warm, sleepy body 
  
Automatic reaction 
A hand snakes out 
Reaches for a nipple 
  
Before going lax 
fatigue fights need 
And the crescent moon 
  
Dips away 
From the honey 
And spoons the cow 
  </description>
		<dc:creator>Shannon McEwen</dc:creator>
		<category>Love and cheese</category>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2009 16:47:40 GMT</pubDate>
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