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	<title>tongues of the ocean &#187; Janice Lynn Mather</title>
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		<title>Drinking Water</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Aug 2010 04:02:23 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[2010 June Issue]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[She was at the sink. Behind us, I could hear the tub filling, water splashing into water. She had started to undress already; her shirt was on the counter. I had never seen my mother in only her bra before. For a moment, I forgot fear, and was embarrassed.

“What happen?”

She pointed at the toilet. I didn’t understand. It was filled with blood. I said “Are you dying?” It was a stupid thing to say.

She pointed at the bathtub. I turned to look at it.

It was full of red, too. The tap, still on, gushed red. Red rushed into the tub and splashed up onto the lower tiles. This was not from my mother, this red, this—blood. I looked at her; she was shaking. I looked up at the ceiling, its ordinary white.]]></description>
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		<title>Ericka</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2009 04:01:10 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[2009 February Issue]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[a brassy mouth.  a laugh spilled out like inverted mango,
slashed purple skin spill orange flesh.  and tart.  
and sweet.
cuss and row, trombone inside out,
a scarlet saxophone, cymbals her lungs
a rim of gold about a tooth
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		<title>Being Sent Back</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Feb 2009 05:01:31 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[2009 February Issue]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[They are richer than heaven here, healthy
as hell.  The streets blood-paved.  
Any old yard, doctors, professors
chap crab grass, tame cerasee,
trade medical analysis and book critiques
as machetes beat back weeds]]></description>
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