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		<title>&#8220;The Heaven of Animals&#8221; &#8211; James L. Dickey</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jan 2012 05:43:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here they are. The soft eyes open. If they have lived in a wood It is a wood. If they have lived on plains It is grass rolling Under their feet forever. Having no souls, they have come, Anyway, beyond their knowing. Their instincts wholly bloom And they rise. The soft eyes open. To match [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=moonlightowl.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12169629&amp;post=2567&amp;subd=moonlightowl&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;The Snow Man&#8221; &#8211; Wallace Stevens</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jan 2012 03:53:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One must have a mind of winter To regard the frost and the boughs Of the pine-trees crusted with snow; And have been cold a long time To behold the junipers shagged with ice, The spruces rough in the distant glitter Of the January sun; and not to think Of any misery in the sound [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=moonlightowl.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12169629&amp;post=2551&amp;subd=moonlightowl&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Not Waving but Drowning&#8221; &#8211; Stevie Smith</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Oct 2011 06:49:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg Maher</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nobody heard him, the dead man, But still he lay moaning: I was much further out than you thought And not waving but drowning. Poor chap, he always loved larking And now he’s dead It must have been too cold for him his heart gave way, They said. Oh, no no no, it was too [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=moonlightowl.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12169629&amp;post=2536&amp;subd=moonlightowl&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Stone&#8221; &#8211; Charles Simic</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Oct 2011 04:27:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg Maher</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Go inside a stone That would be my way. Let somebody else become a dove Or gnash with a tiger&#8217;s tooth. I am happy to be a stone. From the outside the stone is a riddle: No one knows how to answer it. Yet within, it must be cool and quiet Even though a cow [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=moonlightowl.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12169629&amp;post=2522&amp;subd=moonlightowl&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Reluctance&#8221; &#8211; Robert Frost</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2011 03:05:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Out through the fields and the woods And over the walls I have wended; I have climbed the hills of view And looked at the world, and descended; I have come by the highway home, And lo, it is ended. The leaves are all dead on the ground, Save those that the oak is keeping [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=moonlightowl.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12169629&amp;post=2511&amp;subd=moonlightowl&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;It was not Death, for I stood up&#8221; &#8211; Emily Dickinson</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 May 2011 00:30:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg Maher</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was not death, for I stood up, And all the dead lie down. It was not night, for all the bells Put out their tongues for noon. It was not frost, for on my flesh I felt siroccos crawl, Nor fire, for just my marble feet Could keep a chancel cool. And yet it [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=moonlightowl.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12169629&amp;post=2499&amp;subd=moonlightowl&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;In the Park&#8221; &#8211; John Koethe</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 May 2011 00:17:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg Maher</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[for Susan Koethe This is the life I wanted, and could never see. For almost twenty years I thought that it was enough: That real happiness was either unreal, or lost, or endless, And that remembrance was as close to it as I could ever come. And I believed that deep in the past, buried [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=moonlightowl.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12169629&amp;post=2430&amp;subd=moonlightowl&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Interrupted Mediation&#8221; &#8211; Robert Hass</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Apr 2011 04:01:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg Maher</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Little green involute fronds of fern at creekside. And the sinewy clear water rushing over creekstone of the palest amber, veined with a darker gold, thinnest lines of gold rivering through the amber like—ah, now we come to it. We were not put on earth, the old man said, he was hacking into the crust [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=moonlightowl.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12169629&amp;post=2419&amp;subd=moonlightowl&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Taking to the Hills&#8221; &#8211; Rachel Wetzsteon</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Apr 2011 02:45:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg Maher</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If walking, like wine, only abets a sad mood let’s try it, I said, and I did: over these hills that have never known sorrow no thoughtful moon passes. Dig until a hill is level, and unearth only earth. Take pride in knowing the chemical makeup of rain, the sum total of harmful vapors in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=moonlightowl.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12169629&amp;post=2398&amp;subd=moonlightowl&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Forgetfulness&#8221; &#8211; Billy Collins</title>
		<link>http://moonlightowl.wordpress.com/2011/04/28/forgetfulness/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Apr 2011 01:59:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The name of the author is the first to go followed obediently by the title, the plot, the heartbreaking conclusion, the entire novel which suddenly becomes one you have never read, never &#160;&#160;&#160;even heard of, as if, one by one, the memories you used to harbor decided to retire to the southern hemisphere of the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=moonlightowl.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12169629&amp;post=2381&amp;subd=moonlightowl&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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