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		<title>Beside A Forest Too Beautiful</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Aug 2024 15:13:45 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[“Eventually, my eyes were opened, and I really understood nature. I learned to love at the same time.” &#8211; Claude &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://poetguru.wordpress.com/2024/08/20/beside-a-forest-too-beautiful/">More</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>How To Cry</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Jul 2024 20:50:20 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Never say that your eyes are broken, they see perfect. Never say there’s a lump in your throat, or that &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://poetguru.wordpress.com/2024/07/31/how-to-cry/">More</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Ten Words</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Apr 2024 01:16:08 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[for National Poetry Month, April 2024 I:I’m still in love. Still,in love. In lovestill. 2:Cheek to chest, whatdo you hear? &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://poetguru.wordpress.com/2024/04/08/ten-words-april-2024-national-poetry-month/">More</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Hope In This</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Nov 2023 05:59:33 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Existence is &#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;wobbly, flawed, imperfect, scratched, inexact, unideal, seamed, askew, misaligned, typo’d, disjoint, dinged, frayed, mended, mispelledcreased, pocked, amiss,nearly, patched,&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;our &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://poetguru.wordpress.com/2023/11/13/the-hope-in-this/">More</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Checklist</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Apr 2023 19:34:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>First, There’s The Thing</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Apr 2023 17:16:58 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[First, there’s the thing.&#160; The five W’s we suspect we’ve come from, that we strive for, and that we assume &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://poetguru.wordpress.com/2023/04/02/first-theres-the-thing/">More</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Rules For This Mixtape: Try 2022</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2022 21:42:48 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[At the beginning of this year I heard a single song that I knew would be my theme of the &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://poetguru.wordpress.com/2022/12/30/rules-for-this-mixtape-try-2022/">More</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Snoop Said, “It’s cool growing old.”</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Oct 2022 11:39:46 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I’ve enjoyed a longer life than: Bill Hicks, Patrice O’Neal, Amy Whinehouse, Janis Joplin, Vincent Van Gogh, Gilda Radner, Sam &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://poetguru.wordpress.com/2022/10/28/snoop-said-its-cool-growing-old/">More</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Wildly Foolish</title>
		<link>https://poetguru.wordpress.com/2022/03/31/wildly-foolish/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2022 11:01:25 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Who could envision the highs and lows, wholly grown, from a room full of wills woofing like gutsy puppies? Whoosh &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://poetguru.wordpress.com/2022/03/31/wildly-foolish/">More</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Mud Season</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Mar 2022 03:28:42 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[We arrived from a knot of rivers, and so assumed we understood seasons, but in spring the seams cut by &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://poetguru.wordpress.com/2022/03/19/the-mud-season/">More</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Animist’s Analog</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Mar 2022 21:40:26 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Someday the songs of this life will exist only in aging brains that hum along. Once they populated gismos made &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://poetguru.wordpress.com/2022/03/14/the-animists-analog/">More</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Barbed Heart</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Mar 2022 02:05:59 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The point of a heart is sharp enough to thread any needle, to dare to love and to bear any &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://poetguru.wordpress.com/2022/03/13/the-barbed-heart/">More</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Fickle Painful Mean</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[I would love to show up today plain, without regard for the flicker of this flame which has passed through &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://poetguru.wordpress.com/2022/03/13/painful-fickle-mean/">More</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>A Heart No Longer</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Mar 2022 09:33:43 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Might it have been not long ago— earlier today maybe, that I let go of my altar, after the heartaches &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://poetguru.wordpress.com/2022/03/05/a-heart-no-longer/">More</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Madness charges along the ice…</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Madness charges along the ice, claws etching inches of sleet. She scoots from the house twice and returns long-tongued and &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://poetguru.wordpress.com/2022/02/04/madness-charges-along-the-ice/">More</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Mother ocean loves us…</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jan 2022 02:47:57 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Mother ocean loves us, reflecting the light and waves, her love unconditional and forgiveness unending. Reflecting the light, she waves &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://poetguru.wordpress.com/2022/01/17/mother-ocean-loves-us/">More</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Let the whole world be as it is…</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Dec 2021 13:14:07 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Let the whole world be as it is. Dance and laugh and snarl and scream. But don&#8217;t lose your life &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://poetguru.wordpress.com/2021/12/31/let-the-whole-world-be-as-it-is/">More</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Next Day</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Dec 2021 23:58:07 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[On Christmas day everyone texts, everyone calls, they know it will be hard, being the first year and all. They &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://poetguru.wordpress.com/2021/12/26/the-next-day/">More</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Expansion on Rumi</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Dec 2021 22:40:08 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Who makes these changes?I shoot an arrow right.It lands left.I ride after a deer and find myselfchased by a hog.I &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://poetguru.wordpress.com/2021/12/21/variations-on-rumi/">More</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Why The Oracle Went Silent</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Dec 2021 19:15:25 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Mostly, the worthy would hector her about business or an electoral race, some an oath they were about to take. &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://poetguru.wordpress.com/2021/12/19/why-the-oracle-stopped-saying/">More</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>A Creation Myth</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Dec 2021 20:23:22 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[For the first billion years of multicellular life on earth the only thing that existed were fungi, mushrooms, mycelium. Without &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://poetguru.wordpress.com/2021/12/18/a-creation-myth/">More</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Chasing Dopamine, Running from Cortisol</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Dec 2021 13:40:44 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I try to remember the name of that brain chemical which is released in small bits when you make a &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://poetguru.wordpress.com/2021/12/18/chasing-dopamine-running-from-cortisol/">More</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>She, He, Him</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Dec 2021 06:26:36 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[God, you could have just given her a baby (She, He, Him), perfectly boring. Neural pathways laid out like a &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://poetguru.wordpress.com/2021/12/14/she-he-him/">More</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>The most challenging thing I’ve done in a dream</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Dec 2021 12:30:48 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The most challenging thing I’ve ever done in a dream was learning how to die. I lived alone in grad &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://poetguru.wordpress.com/2021/12/08/the-most-challenging-thing-ive-done-in-a-dream/">More</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Moon That Is</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Dec 2021 10:54:28 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[My moon. My man. Risen to the point of deity by songstress, poets, purveyors of story. Said in tale to &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://poetguru.wordpress.com/2021/12/06/the-moon-that-is/">More</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Robbie Russo</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Dec 2021 08:40:20 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Really, our bodies belong iron-encased. The ribs around our heart and lungs not nearly enough. The buttons buttoned-up on shirts &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://poetguru.wordpress.com/2021/12/03/3667/">More</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Brightness</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Dec 2021 22:13:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[After selling millions of iMacs with CRT monitors, Apple’s final entry into the market was called an eMac. This 60-pound &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://poetguru.wordpress.com/2021/12/01/brightness/">More</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>My sister didn’t call on Thanksgiving.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Nov 2021 11:50:04 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[My sister didn’t call on Thanksgiving. It’s no big deal, we are not close. But when I was small she &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://poetguru.wordpress.com/2021/11/29/my-sister-didnt-call-on-thanksgiving/">More</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>I Rose This Morning…</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Oct 2021 20:41:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I rose this morning. Everyone I adore who dreamt in their distinct realms last night also woke. And so I &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://poetguru.wordpress.com/2021/10/22/i-rose-this-morning-2/">More</a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>A simple life is beautiful</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Oct 2021 23:11:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Launch</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Oct 2021 17:15:48 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Well, congratulations. You&#8217;ve completed your orientation and training. Everything looks like it&#8217;s in order. You&#8217;ve picked out a situation, location, &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://poetguru.wordpress.com/2021/10/17/launch/">More</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Too</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Sep 2021 16:55:42 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Everything inside this world is thick with verbiage, classifications, terms, taxonomies, and such. I’ve eschewed prose and fed on poetry. &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://poetguru.wordpress.com/2021/09/21/too/">More</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>First Person</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Sep 2021 16:40:50 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[There was a kid once, to whom many things happened. And while a handful of people recall watching these happenings, &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://poetguru.wordpress.com/2021/09/18/first-person/">More</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Taxonomy of Meditation</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Sep 2021 16:58:09 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Meditating, I recognize different levels (of depth, effectiveness, rejuvenation, reset, insight), based on what my attention is doing. 10 &#8211; &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://poetguru.wordpress.com/2021/09/12/taxonomy-of-meditation/">More</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>A Dolphin Among The Stars</title>
		<link>https://poetguru.wordpress.com/2021/08/31/a-dolphin-among-the-stars/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2021 02:09:39 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[“Pardon, milady. His lordship has asked that the topsails be trimmed, turned into the wind, that the aphids again, as &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://poetguru.wordpress.com/2021/08/31/a-dolphin-among-the-stars/">More</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Said The River To The Sea</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Jul 2021 18:32:16 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[God, as a kid I was long and lanky while you lapped up a bit of everything. I would melt &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://poetguru.wordpress.com/2021/07/11/said-the-river-to-the-sea/">More</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>For Restless Sleep</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Apr 2021 01:37:07 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Waking when the sleep-theater was vivid, when the story was a snickering forest of fear and flying, waking up weights &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://poetguru.wordpress.com/2021/04/29/for-restless-sleep/">More</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Waking when the sleep-theater was vivid</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Apr 2021 20:38:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Waking when the sleep-theater was vivid, when the story&#160; was a snickering forest of fear and flying, waking up&#160; weights &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://poetguru.wordpress.com/2021/04/09/waking-when-the-sleep-theater-was-vivid/">More</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>A gift for you</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2021 16:35:18 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I am always so moved by the folks who like a post or comment. Well, I have put together a &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://poetguru.wordpress.com/2021/02/11/a-gift-for-you/">More</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>It’s warm enough to sit outside…</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jan 2021 01:27:54 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[It’s warm enough to sit outside, which means it must at least be Spring, which doesn&#8217;t mean that the earth &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://poetguru.wordpress.com/2021/01/22/its-warm-enough-to-sit-outside/">More</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Nothing Stone</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2020 15:06:10 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[No one knows the softness of the nothing stone Perched, as it is, on a pedestal On the head of &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://poetguru.wordpress.com/2020/12/17/the-nothing-stone/">More</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>My Husband Used To Buy Me Roses</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2020 10:32:41 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Roses used to be rare: difficult to come by, seasonal, expensive, delicate, fleeting, pungent, thorned; just a little bit dangerous. &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://poetguru.wordpress.com/2020/12/17/my-husband-used-to-buy-me-roses/">More</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>In The Primordial Ooze</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2020 18:10:13 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Professor Gill inquires as to which sense we assume to be primary, (glasses cockeyed, rims bent) &#8220;Would you guess in &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://poetguru.wordpress.com/2020/11/04/in-the-primordial-ooze/">More</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>As A Holding Cell</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2020 01:32:58 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Each space inside us (each cavity, cavern, fold, and hole) stands as a holding cell for our delinquencies (mucus, breath, &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://poetguru.wordpress.com/2020/11/02/as-a-holding-cell/">More</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>A Ceremony In Their Honor</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2020 15:57:23 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Only the notable earn a ceremony in their honorwhile still upright and sentient:the hero-worshipped, the cheered, the adored. Sure, if &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://poetguru.wordpress.com/2020/11/01/a-ceremony-in-their-honor/">More</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>A student went to the gate…</title>
		<link>https://poetguru.wordpress.com/2020/05/09/a-student-went-to-the-gate/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2020 16:11:33 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A student went to the gate and rang the bell where Jesus lived. There was no response. The student ran &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://poetguru.wordpress.com/2020/05/09/a-student-went-to-the-gate/">More</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>A Conversation</title>
		<link>https://poetguru.wordpress.com/2020/04/23/a-conversation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2020 15:31:19 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[“Dammit Bones, you’re a doctor. You know that pain and guilt can’t be taken away with a wave of a &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://poetguru.wordpress.com/2020/04/23/a-conversation/">More</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Quantized Emotional Capacity</title>
		<link>https://poetguru.wordpress.com/2020/04/15/quantized-emotional-capacity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2020 18:58:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>I came here for…</title>
		<link>https://poetguru.wordpress.com/2020/03/04/i-came-here-for/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2020 13:35:44 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I came here for the experience of breathing for the hard slap and wailing for the warmth of another. For &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://poetguru.wordpress.com/2020/03/04/i-came-here-for/">More</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>I Rose This Morning…</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Feb 2020 12:55:28 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I rose this morning. Everyone I adore who dreamt in their distinct realms last night also woke. And so I &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://poetguru.wordpress.com/2020/02/17/i-rose-this-morning/">More</a>]]></description>
		
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Feb 2020 16:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jan 2020 21:43:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Somewhere under two percent of the mass in any molecule arises from what is called “rest mass”, that is the &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://poetguru.wordpress.com/2020/01/22/ill-give-you-about-2-2/">More</a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Plants Are Teaching Us</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jan 2020 14:58:58 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Different plants have different personalities. When we ingest them we ingest a bit of their personalities. The cocoa plant invites &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://poetguru.wordpress.com/2020/01/14/the-plants-are-teaching-us/">More</a>]]></description>
		
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jan 2020 12:24:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Lives Led In Delusion</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jan 2020 12:11:37 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[From the shade and feel of our sheets, and the carpet on our feet, to the motives we ascribe to &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://poetguru.wordpress.com/2020/01/02/lives-led-in-delusion/">More</a>]]></description>
		
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Dec 2019 17:31:05 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[One must conclude that-hatred is more thrilling than love. The heart beating at intersections, howling that everyone else has green &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://poetguru.wordpress.com/2019/12/13/one-must-conclude-that-hatred/">More</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>How I Love</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[When an ex-girlfriend first met my now-wife she said, “He will love you like no one else, if you are &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://poetguru.wordpress.com/2019/12/01/how-i-love/">More</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>No Point</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Oct 2019 13:23:40 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[There is no point in talking about a single electron, no mass and all charge. They don’t exist except in &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://poetguru.wordpress.com/2019/10/06/no-point/">More</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Stone, Wax, Water</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Aug 2019 10:49:09 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The dent left by the first love you can remember, and remember losing, shapes the malformed fist of your heart. &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://poetguru.wordpress.com/2019/08/30/stone-wax-and-water/">More</a>]]></description>
		
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Aug 2019 16:10:11 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The first Noble Truth of Buddhism is that &#8220;Life is suffering,&#8221; and as Wesley added in The Princess Bride, &#8220;anyone &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://poetguru.wordpress.com/2019/08/18/wobbly/">More</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Thoughts On A Walk</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jul 2019 08:59:04 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The universe is an unimaginably immense spacetime where counterbalanced forces merge and annihilate without care for the current forms and &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://poetguru.wordpress.com/2019/07/18/thoughts-on-a-walk/">More</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Nothing</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Jun 2019 20:44:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I arrived into a culture which placed the highest value on effort and competition; the go-go 80s with ladder climbing &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://poetguru.wordpress.com/2019/06/08/nothing/">More</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>You have never been separate…</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Jun 2019 10:58:45 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[You have never been separate, not once untouched. Your entire life you have been held, right now your butt by &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://poetguru.wordpress.com/2019/06/05/you-have-never-been-separate/">More</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>This.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2019 14:13:58 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This is everything. The only thing. The thing, if a thing exists, exists here, as this. I am this. This &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://poetguru.wordpress.com/2019/04/23/this/">More</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>From Prequel to SQL: Episode 1</title>
		<link>https://poetguru.wordpress.com/2019/04/17/from-prequel-to-sql-episode-1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Apr 2019 22:47:05 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[After spending years telling anyone who would listen to hire for mindset, not skillset, an enterprising team has taken my &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://poetguru.wordpress.com/2019/04/17/from-prequel-to-sql-episode-1/">More</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>A Fish Proclaims</title>
		<link>https://poetguru.wordpress.com/2019/03/25/a-fish-proclaims/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Mar 2019 19:13:06 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A fish proclaims&#8230; A person proclaims&#8230; “One day I hope to attain wetness, to be one with water, to allow &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://poetguru.wordpress.com/2019/03/25/a-fish-proclaims/">More</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Must Write</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Mar 2019 12:51:27 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[As each being– from lichen to lamprey, to cousin to auntie– must find their own way in this existence, so &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://poetguru.wordpress.com/2019/03/21/must-write/">More</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Today is Today</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Mar 2019 12:24:56 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[One. Today is today. Nothing else exists. Whatever you have is a gift from someone else. The continuity of existence &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://poetguru.wordpress.com/2019/03/19/today-is-today/">More</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>What I Want From Art</title>
		<link>https://poetguru.wordpress.com/2018/10/17/what-i-want-from-art/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Oct 2018 12:46:52 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[At its conception, uncontrolled wailing, skinned knees ¡Bravado!, a form struggling to be born. Mostly struggle. At its publishing, tectonic, &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://poetguru.wordpress.com/2018/10/17/what-i-want-from-art/">More</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Retrospective</title>
		<link>https://poetguru.wordpress.com/2018/04/24/retrospective/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2018 20:49:48 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I can not recall ever feeling different from this. A day when what hurts was still, and other segments ached, &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://poetguru.wordpress.com/2018/04/24/retrospective/">More</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>This Guilt</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2018 20:09:59 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Allow any good thing I have ever done to live in the stories others tell (to illustrate a point, coax &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://poetguru.wordpress.com/2018/04/23/this-guilt/">More</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Flow</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Apr 2018 14:58:50 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The educated child learned the best farm to plant was over top of the septic fields. And so, the line &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://poetguru.wordpress.com/2018/04/22/flow/">More</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>This Fear</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Apr 2018 14:57:27 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This fear is meant to keep us here, distant from the perimeter of the compound where the fuel is found. &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://poetguru.wordpress.com/2018/04/21/this-fear/">More</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Alertness</title>
		<link>https://poetguru.wordpress.com/2018/04/20/alertness/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2018 14:54:33 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I was told I would see natural magic. Assumed there were imps in the trees, fairies (like Fern Gully). When &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://poetguru.wordpress.com/2018/04/20/alertness/">More</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>This Anger</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2018 12:46:57 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This anger fends off predators I&#8217;d be unable to defend against (and friends). This anger. This anger is a well-reasoned &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://poetguru.wordpress.com/2018/04/19/this-anger/">More</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Proprioception II</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2018 04:01:55 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[As my left calf flexes everything&#8217;s disengaged (relaxed separate frictionless spinning). When I let go they click. Right hand in &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://poetguru.wordpress.com/2018/04/18/proprioception-ii/">More</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>This Pronoun</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2018 14:41:58 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[“I worry about losing.” My age, my loot, my guns. And so I seek a strategy against goblins vanishing. One: &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://poetguru.wordpress.com/2018/04/17/this-pronoun/">More</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>After Burn</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Apr 2018 13:10:54 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[When they left our solar system (nemeses, accomplices, cronies) it was not because we&#8217;d conceived all the good art but &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://poetguru.wordpress.com/2018/04/16/after-burn/">More</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>This Consciousness</title>
		<link>https://poetguru.wordpress.com/2018/04/15/this-consciousness/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Apr 2018 13:15:33 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[YES! Fear not. All that feels permanent about existence is temporary. It passes. Use whatever metaphor feels most like the &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://poetguru.wordpress.com/2018/04/15/this-consciousness/">More</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Cardinal Forces</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Apr 2018 13:01:25 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[They&#8217;ve slotted us in since birth, shaking the tray so we&#8217;ll settle, each into the slot most shaped like our &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://poetguru.wordpress.com/2018/04/14/cardinal-forces/">More</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>This Breathing</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Apr 2018 13:17:05 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Most days I&#8217;m invisible to myself a mere impulse perusing the landscape while pulleys and servos keep lenses focused and &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://poetguru.wordpress.com/2018/04/13/this-breathing/">More</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Follow the Leader</title>
		<link>https://poetguru.wordpress.com/2018/04/12/follow-the-leader/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2018 13:15:01 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The first lie is the sunrise (compounded by telling us that some imagine a man in a chariot who invests &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://poetguru.wordpress.com/2018/04/12/follow-the-leader/">More</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>This Focus</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2018 19:02:52 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Stage 1: You have no clue who you are and must wait patiently for an answer as you pose the &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://poetguru.wordpress.com/2018/04/11/this-focus/">More</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Peripheral Consciousness</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Apr 2018 19:31:21 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[My laptop is smart enough to have ports on both sides ready to offload information and allow new. Smart enough &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://poetguru.wordpress.com/2018/04/10/peripheral-consciousness/">More</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>This Touch</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Apr 2018 15:13:50 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This touch is our one true sense. Amoeba halving into eternity, quanta touched down on retina, vibration of air in &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://poetguru.wordpress.com/2018/04/09/this-touch/">More</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Conscious Alternative</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Apr 2018 15:49:20 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This moment (each), you have me on a leash, hooked because we are one (enmeshed) in the same. For the &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://poetguru.wordpress.com/2018/04/08/conscious-alternative/">More</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>This Smell</title>
		<link>https://poetguru.wordpress.com/2018/04/07/this-smell/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Apr 2018 17:36:39 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This smell shores its sacred breath, wafts its way around monasteries and nurseries, round children and daisies, only sense tucked &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://poetguru.wordpress.com/2018/04/07/this-smell/">More</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Impending Doom</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Apr 2018 12:09:57 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I fret the inevitable heat-death of the universe galaxies fleeing from each other faster than light shudder about our red-giant &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://poetguru.wordpress.com/2018/04/06/impending-doom/">More</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>This Taste</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Apr 2018 12:03:45 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This taste, to a light-switch, is little more than hot &#38; cold knot &#38; hold shot &#38; old. And while &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://poetguru.wordpress.com/2018/04/05/this-taste/">More</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Barometric Pressure</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Apr 2018 11:51:53 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[They said derisively that I would move to the mountains (for my protection or theirs) not realizing peaks are our &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://poetguru.wordpress.com/2018/04/04/barometric-pressure/">More</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>This Sight</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Apr 2018 11:25:35 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This: if sight is about making sense of light, receiving heat careening off every surface and making meaningful use of &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://poetguru.wordpress.com/2018/04/03/this-sight/">More</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Proprioception</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Apr 2018 12:09:32 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Here I am, hung in the clouds; legs scorpioned like a tail, arms outstretched like an angel, skydiving to the &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://poetguru.wordpress.com/2018/04/02/proprioception/">More</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>This Sound</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Apr 2018 11:37:11 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This sound unfolds like a fresh sheet unfurling, suppler than a sheet of paper which must be scratched at the &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://poetguru.wordpress.com/2018/04/01/this-sound/">More</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>About Time</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Nov 2017 14:41:24 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A completely unqualified collection of thoughts about moving sideways through time The residents of line-land are obsessed with ordinality. In &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://poetguru.wordpress.com/2017/11/25/about-time/">More</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>What Have I Done?</title>
		<link>https://poetguru.wordpress.com/2017/10/31/what-have-i-done/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Oct 2017 12:07:52 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Phillip Levine was one of the great 20th century American poets. There is something in his work I have never &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://poetguru.wordpress.com/2017/10/31/what-have-i-done/">More</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>October Thoughts: Volume Two</title>
		<link>https://poetguru.wordpress.com/2017/10/30/october-thoughts-volume-two/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Oct 2017 11:47:47 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[An unordered collection of quips and notions collected in the second half of this month. * There is nothing you &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://poetguru.wordpress.com/2017/10/30/october-thoughts-volume-two/">More</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Quiet Mind</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Oct 2017 23:15:09 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I ran a 5k yesterday, the same Halloween 5k we run every year. I ran without a watch, without headphones, &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://poetguru.wordpress.com/2017/10/29/quiet-mind/">More</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Life Can Be Fun</title>
		<link>https://poetguru.wordpress.com/2017/10/28/life-can-be-fun/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Oct 2017 12:13:08 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[There are certainly days that need Carpe Diem, Dent the Universe, Kick Today in the Dick. There are incidents you &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://poetguru.wordpress.com/2017/10/28/life-can-be-fun/">More</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Perhaps One Thing</title>
		<link>https://poetguru.wordpress.com/2017/10/27/perhaps-one-thing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Oct 2017 22:39:49 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I wish to retract the parameters of this month’s practice. I have said often that what I was trying to &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://poetguru.wordpress.com/2017/10/27/perhaps-one-thing/">More</a>]]></description>
		
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