http://tonguesoftheocean.org words and writing from the islands Sun, 15 Apr 2012 04:02:49 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://tonguesoftheocean.org/2009/12/angel-and-me/ http://tonguesoftheocean.org/2009/12/angel-and-me/#comments Sun, 27 Dec 2009 04:02:29 +0000 webmaster http://tonguesoftheocean.org/?p=1419 Live a clean life, she said, you get to be old as me. She is old. She gave me a glass of cold water. Angel says I can’t believe you drank her water. She’s a witch you know. Everybody knows she’s a witch. After Greek school we play in front of the church, throw stones at the witch’s house. She comes outside with a stick in her hand, shaking it at us like a long crooked finger. We howl, laughing at the witch. ]]> http://tonguesoftheocean.org/2009/12/angel-and-me/feed/ 0 http://tonguesoftheocean.org/2009/12/my-body-sided/ http://tonguesoftheocean.org/2009/12/my-body-sided/#comments Sun, 27 Dec 2009 04:02:15 +0000 webmaster http://tonguesoftheocean.org/?p=1425 . both places dark, shaded from the heat of horizons. No need for eyes to adjust. .]]> http://tonguesoftheocean.org/2009/12/my-body-sided/feed/ 1 http://tonguesoftheocean.org/2009/12/she-came-home-suddenly/ http://tonguesoftheocean.org/2009/12/she-came-home-suddenly/#comments Sun, 20 Dec 2009 04:01:40 +0000 webmaster http://tonguesoftheocean.org/?p=1423 . wearing white garments as skin]]> http://tonguesoftheocean.org/2009/12/she-came-home-suddenly/feed/ 0 http://tonguesoftheocean.org/2009/12/iguana/ http://tonguesoftheocean.org/2009/12/iguana/#comments Sun, 20 Dec 2009 04:01:36 +0000 webmaster http://tonguesoftheocean.org/?p=1399 .]]> http://tonguesoftheocean.org/2009/12/iguana/feed/ 1 http://tonguesoftheocean.org/2009/12/blow-out-the-candles/ http://tonguesoftheocean.org/2009/12/blow-out-the-candles/#comments Sun, 13 Dec 2009 06:12:11 +0000 webmaster http://tonguesoftheocean.org/?p=1467 http://tonguesoftheocean.org/2009/12/blow-out-the-candles/feed/ 0 http://tonguesoftheocean.org/2009/12/writers-on-writers-obediah-michael-smith/ http://tonguesoftheocean.org/2009/12/writers-on-writers-obediah-michael-smith/#comments Sun, 13 Dec 2009 04:01:19 +0000 webmaster http://tonguesoftheocean.org/?p=1367 In a China Shop, Seventy Poems, and Open Testament, and the challenges of publishing poems in The Bahamas.]]> http://tonguesoftheocean.org/2009/12/writers-on-writers-obediah-michael-smith/feed/ 2 http://tonguesoftheocean.org/2009/12/transworld-flight/ http://tonguesoftheocean.org/2009/12/transworld-flight/#comments Sun, 06 Dec 2009 04:02:59 +0000 webmaster http://tonguesoftheocean.org/?p=1271 . A last time she held him, his bones fled, heart at smithereens, never looking back. .]]> http://tonguesoftheocean.org/2009/12/transworld-flight/feed/ 0 http://tonguesoftheocean.org/2009/12/train-travel/ http://tonguesoftheocean.org/2009/12/train-travel/#comments Sun, 06 Dec 2009 04:02:17 +0000 webmaster http://tonguesoftheocean.org/?p=1404 http://tonguesoftheocean.org/2009/12/train-travel/feed/ 1 http://tonguesoftheocean.org/2009/11/mood-for-mugging/ http://tonguesoftheocean.org/2009/11/mood-for-mugging/#comments Sun, 29 Nov 2009 04:02:13 +0000 webmaster http://tonguesoftheocean.org/?p=1383 Mood for Mugging ••• "Mood for Mugging" is taken from Island Voices from St. Christopher & the Barracudas. In the words of its author and producer, "essentially it's a take on island life in a mythical island state in the Caribbean. It takes the form of dramatic monologues, dialogues offered by a range of island characters encouraged to promote their island." ]]> http://tonguesoftheocean.org/2009/11/mood-for-mugging/feed/ 0 http://tonguesoftheocean.org/2009/11/water-clear-as-glass/ http://tonguesoftheocean.org/2009/11/water-clear-as-glass/#comments Sun, 29 Nov 2009 04:01:13 +0000 webmaster http://tonguesoftheocean.org/?p=1369 . it is all theft, isn’t it living and writing transferring, translating one thing, something into something else .]]> http://tonguesoftheocean.org/2009/11/water-clear-as-glass/feed/ 0