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	<title>tongues of the ocean &#187; 2009 June Issue</title>
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		<title>Here is the Poem</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Aug 2009 04:02:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[bredren and sistren]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Nicholas Laughlin]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The colour blue doesn’t want to be a poem,
but sometimes the poem wants to be heartless as blue,
<font color=white>.</font>
the poem wants to be slick and snug as a pebble,
sharp as small teeth, bitter as tea, and sudden
as love (or a sneeze). <font color=white>.</font>]]></description>
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		<title>The Mango Virgin</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Aug 2009 04:01:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Shayla Hawkins]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[“Such a shame," he laughed.
"You can do many things with a mango.”
The sun threw a slanted gleam
over his salt-and-pepper beard.
He lifted a knife from his cart
then joined the blade to a mango.]]></description>
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		<title>Charlestown</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2009 04:02:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Mac Donald Dixon]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Them was times boy, when whitewash passed for paint
and Martin Carter spun his verse on silver paper
from cigarette box his boys smuggled through the bars,
to fan the seeds of revolution against  the Raj.
<span style="color: white;">.</span>]]></description>
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		<title>Dog Bark/Break the Night</title>
		<link>http://tonguesoftheocean.org/2009/08/dog-barkbreak-the-night/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2009 04:01:34 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[2009 June Issue]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[written word]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Patrick Rahming]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Moon reflects in puddled rain
Rain collects in open drain
Drain becomes a dog’s best choice
A drink to soothe its breaking voice
<font color=white>.</font>]]></description>
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		<title>writers on writers: Patrick Rahming</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2009 04:58:59 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[2009 June Issue]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[special feature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[writers on writers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Patrick Rahming]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[••• Patrick Anthony Rahming is a Bahamian architect, poet, musician, dramatist and storyteller. Trained in Montreal, Canada in the 1960&#8242;s, he has spent forty years performing and writing throughout the American East Coast and the Caribbean. He has won awards as an architect (Governor General&#8217;s Awards), actor (DANSA), musician (Timothy Award) and a number of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Still and Maybe More: a Trilogy</title>
		<link>http://tonguesoftheocean.org/2009/08/still-and-maybe-more-a-trilogy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2009 04:57:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Saturday
afternoon fights
with/over broken rum bottles
still leave
gaping wounds
and little black children
crying]]></description>
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		<title>Village</title>
		<link>http://tonguesoftheocean.org/2009/08/village/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Aug 2009 04:02:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[bredren and sistren]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Kendel Hippolyte]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The village that the minivan was travelling to was vanishing
as we drove. Somewhere in ourselves we knew that.
It might have even been the reason finally for the driver speeding.
<font color=white>.</font>]]></description>
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		<title>Havana I</title>
		<link>http://tonguesoftheocean.org/2009/08/havana-i/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Aug 2009 04:02:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Obediah Michael Smith]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Lord bless where Cuba and I meet
like river and sea
I pray we merge deep
<span style="color: white;">.</span>]]></description>
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		<title>Aileen&#8217;s Cupboard</title>
		<link>http://tonguesoftheocean.org/2009/07/aileens-cupboard/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2009 04:02:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[catch a fire]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Rob A. Mackenzie]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[She believes grandmothers will arrive with gifts
and there will be a new heaven and a new earth.
Children will walk to school again, fearing neither
<font color=white>.</font>
the drip of concrete and glass from permanent cloud
nor sudden immolation from journalists wielding
blowtorches as they once wielded typewriters.
<font color=white>.</font>
<font color=white>.</font>]]></description>
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		<title>Conception of Anne Bonny</title>
		<link>http://tonguesoftheocean.org/2009/07/conception-of-anne-bonny/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2009 04:01:32 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[2009 June Issue]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Sonia Farmer]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Did you think
this was a closet?
the sink asks the
sleepwalker.

The sleepwalker stares
at the sink:
My dreams promised me
an ocean.]]></description>
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