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	<title>tongues of the ocean &#187; bredren and sistren</title>
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	<description>words and writing from the islands</description>
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		<title>The Shell Collector</title>
		<link>http://tonguesoftheocean.org/2012/04/the-shell-collector/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Apr 2012 04:02:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Damian Balassone]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Some swear they have seen
the Shell Collector’s figure
in the distant mountains,
but others fiercely dispute this, 
some grieve over his departure,
others claim he is a traitor.]]></description>
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		<title>Names of Plants</title>
		<link>http://tonguesoftheocean.org/2012/03/names-of-plants/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Mar 2012 04:02:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Nicholas Damion Alexander]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I do not know the name
of most of these plants and flowers
growing here; but I know the croton
sitting broad atop time-rusted branches
lining the yard like a border.]]></description>
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		<title>Stay There</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Mar 2012 04:01:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Pravin Nair]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Child, as I throw you
high up in the air
I wish you remain suspended there
like <i>Trishanku</i> pinned to the heavens
<font color=white>.</font>]]></description>
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		<title>On Being Burnt</title>
		<link>http://tonguesoftheocean.org/2012/03/on-being-burnt/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Mar 2012 05:02:13 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[2012 february issue]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Danielle Boodoo-Fortuné]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Someone once told you
that love must be borne
tight against your breasts
like an orphaned thing,
a calcified child.]]></description>
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		<title>Before</title>
		<link>http://tonguesoftheocean.org/2012/03/before/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Mar 2012 05:01:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Glenis Redmond]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Before <i>comb yo nappy head</i> and <i>lotion yo ashy knees</i>
&#038; <i>wipe yo snotty nose</i>
Before <i>you blacker than midnight
you ain’t ugly but you ain’t pretty neither</i>
Before the iron found skin and singed]]></description>
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		<title>The Unnamed Creature Said to Come from the Water</title>
		<link>http://tonguesoftheocean.org/2012/03/the-unnamed-creature-said-to-come-from-the-water/</link>
		<comments>http://tonguesoftheocean.org/2012/03/the-unnamed-creature-said-to-come-from-the-water/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Mar 2012 05:01:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[bredren and sistren]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[special feature]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Andre Bagoo]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[At nights you sleepwalk here, where dank moths die 
You walk in rain and wake up sweating, his lie

Your mother cannot name her great grandmother 
Your father does not know where his village was]]></description>
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		<title>Floating Vessels</title>
		<link>http://tonguesoftheocean.org/2012/03/floating-vessels/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Mar 2012 05:02:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Drains in Port of Spain 
Flow where blue blood 
Opens worlds.

<font color=white>.</font>]]></description>
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		<title>Landslide</title>
		<link>http://tonguesoftheocean.org/2012/03/landslide/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Mar 2012 05:01:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The land must now
peel salt layers, put on
a corduroy mud jacket.

It does not need your help to dress.]]></description>
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		<title>Stomach Trouble</title>
		<link>http://tonguesoftheocean.org/2012/02/stomach-trouble/</link>
		<comments>http://tonguesoftheocean.org/2012/02/stomach-trouble/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Feb 2012 05:02:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Glenis Redmond]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I speak in tongues
with a bitter
aftertaste. I dance
<font color=white>.</font>
to the involuntary rhythms
of my ancestor’s leftover lives.
<font color=white>.</font>]]></description>
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		<title>My Mother&#8217;s Salt</title>
		<link>http://tonguesoftheocean.org/2012/02/my-mothers-salt/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Feb 2012 05:01:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We ate of Mother’s salt
all of our lives till we grew
old enough to insist
she travel to the sea
of her spice, away
from the red heat
of our father’s pepper.]]></description>
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