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	<description>Explorations of Big Sur writer Lisa Goettel</description>
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		<title>At Sea</title>
		<link>http://thebirdsings.wordpress.com/2009/11/21/at-sea/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 01:48:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I can’t leave my house today because the road is closed. It feels like an at-sea day.  (Non-cruise-loving travelers, allow me to explain.) On cruises, the trip revolves around the places of port – the journey’s milestones where everyone on the boat files off, spends 8 hours stimulating the local economy, then clambers back on [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thebirdsings.wordpress.com&blog=3399318&post=331&subd=thebirdsings&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Message in a bottle</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 16:24:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thebirdsings.wordpress.com/?p=314</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It’s been 98 days since I remembered I had anything interesting to write here.  I just checked. There was a meager sighting of sub-par poetry in there, done in the interest of humility and commitment-keeping, but my blog’s officially been getting short shrift since July.  And what a shame, because phrases I’ve never [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thebirdsings.wordpress.com&blog=3399318&post=314&subd=thebirdsings&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ok, Ok, Ok&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://thebirdsings.wordpress.com/2009/09/01/ok-ok-ok/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 10:06:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thebirdsings.wordpress.com/?p=289</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Been promising words to myself and fellow bloggers like Miss Keely for days and days.  A half-dozen, half-written posts later, I give up. I&#8217;m grabbing my bedside poetry journal right this minute, closing my eyes, flipping through and pointing.  Perennial-editor be damned.
look at me
more to the left, please
curve me
along the convex line of an antique [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thebirdsings.wordpress.com&blog=3399318&post=289&subd=thebirdsings&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Upside Down</title>
		<link>http://thebirdsings.wordpress.com/2009/07/14/upside-down/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 20:20:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ 
I&#8217;ve never done this before, but I want to dedicate this post to my dear friend Tuaca, who I love, and she knows it.
I went to my first aerial dance class yesterday.  I swung around and climbed and went upside down on a big circus rope and hanging fabric like those super pretty people [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thebirdsings.wordpress.com&blog=3399318&post=271&subd=thebirdsings&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>the feathered cape</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2009 03:11:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An elbow points from beneath its feathered cape
I am running to meet you
Show me the words
Are the feathers enough to hold me?
May I cross the threshold and take the sounds to share?
I am waiting, always
Beginning again, I put down my brush and pick up the fingers
Heaven smells close.
I wander in the fields of self-reproach
As if [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thebirdsings.wordpress.com&blog=3399318&post=257&subd=thebirdsings&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>You said.</title>
		<link>http://thebirdsings.wordpress.com/2009/04/19/you-said/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2009 07:20:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Earlier today I thought my words were broken.  Broken, or so rigid they could not form to the smooth curves of the knowing I want to express.  Since I was little I&#8217;ve gone through phases of deep despair and frustration over the frailty and imperfection of words in the face of my experience. Today I heard [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thebirdsings.wordpress.com&blog=3399318&post=253&subd=thebirdsings&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Again.</title>
		<link>http://thebirdsings.wordpress.com/2009/02/13/again/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Feb 2009 02:56:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Blogging affords so many opportunities. To connect, to receive feedback, to edit, to obsess.  It shines a light on the writer’s process, inside and all-visible. What a gift.
(You can imagine me saying this with genuine enthusiasm or dripping with sarcasm and be right either way.)
The feedback piece is particularly significant for me a the moment.  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thebirdsings.wordpress.com&blog=3399318&post=248&subd=thebirdsings&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>snapshots</title>
		<link>http://thebirdsings.wordpress.com/2009/02/12/snapshots/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2009 06:33:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[head loll down and to one side
jaw slack
chest balloon: blow in, out
see flowers in the dark
see them
think about work
soundtrack: pulse, night, honey
remember what happened
obsess
whisper mantras
psychic message in bottle: delivered
drive
stop for kitten
wonder if

hands push out skin suit
hard
from inside ribs   face   skull
more with
each intolerance.

cooperation is a choice.

wrap it tighter.
I want to feel what I’m breaking
Posted in lisa [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thebirdsings.wordpress.com&blog=3399318&post=233&subd=thebirdsings&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>All Roads Lead to Rome (and Here)</title>
		<link>http://thebirdsings.wordpress.com/2009/01/25/all-roads-lead-to-rome-and-here/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jan 2009 20:15:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thebirdsings.com/?p=229</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m enjoying, or not, depending on the moment, a stunning lack of focus lately.  I&#8217;m feeling oh so resistant to making any choice that could limit my options.  I want it all.  And I&#8217;m discovering the irony in this&#8230; that this mentality keeps me from fully picking, doing or enjoying anything, really.
I&#8217;m reminded as I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thebirdsings.wordpress.com&blog=3399318&post=229&subd=thebirdsings&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Writing the Other Side</title>
		<link>http://thebirdsings.wordpress.com/2009/01/16/writing-the-other-side/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2009 11:02:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been reading Rob Brezsny for an hour.  He is a madman.
He is famous for his syndicated astrology column now, but someday he&#8217;ll be more famous for his mastery in untethering imagination in pursuit of truth.  He&#8217;s one of the seekers, choosing the reckless (but not aimless) path of uninhibited expression to the spiritual [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thebirdsings.wordpress.com&blog=3399318&post=215&subd=thebirdsings&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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