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		<title>Innings Outings</title>
		<link>http://tonguesoftheocean.org/2011/08/innings-outings/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Aug 2011 04:02:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[how many minutes in an inch
how many degrees in a mile or two
in an hour or two 
<font color=white>.</font>]]></description>
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		<title>Sleeping Sheep</title>
		<link>http://tonguesoftheocean.org/2011/06/sleeping-sheep/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jun 2011 04:01:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was in her before she knew or could resist
I often ended up inside her
she had to catch up quick, decide to accept
<font color=white>.</font>
back for other rounds, for more of this ]]></description>
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		<title>Six-Word Stories</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Apr 2011 04:01:57 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[2011 February Issue]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bredren and sistren]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Amanda Lewis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barbara Jenkins]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christi Cartwright]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DaMaris Hill]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jaime Lee Loy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michelle Isava]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obediah Michael Smith]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Renatta Laundry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sonia Farmer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thomas Armstrong]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vahni Capildeo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vashti Bowlah]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Writers constantly challenge themselves to say the most they can in the briefest of sentences. There have been entire contests devoted to stories told in just six words, entire anthologies of six-word memoirs or six word stories from individual groups of people. These stories are tiny testaments to the individual, fleeting human experience. Now, it is our turn.]]></description>
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		<title>1 O&#8217;Clock Mass</title>
		<link>http://tonguesoftheocean.org/2010/06/1-o-clock-mass/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jun 2010 04:05:46 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[2010 June Issue]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[<font color=white>.</font>
<font color=white>.</font>
ants that we are, wiped out in an instant
can we be as humble as ants are little
as ants are helpless
<font color=white>.</font>
light enough to float upon the waves of life
come hell or high water
come rain or come shine
<font color=white>.</font>
<font color=white>.</font>
<font color=white>.</font>]]></description>
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		<title>Blow Out the Candles</title>
		<link>http://tonguesoftheocean.org/2009/12/blow-out-the-candles/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Dec 2009 06:12:11 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[2009 October Issue]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[what a love affair
she and I shared
like icing on the cake of existence
on the crust of creation]]></description>
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		<title>writers on writers: Obediah Michael Smith</title>
		<link>http://tonguesoftheocean.org/2009/12/writers-on-writers-obediah-michael-smith/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Dec 2009 04:01:19 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[2009 October Issue]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[special feature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[writers on writers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obediah Michael Smith]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This issue's featured writer on writers is Bahamian poet Obediah Michael Smith, one of The Bahamas' most prolific poets and authors. tongues of the ocean interviewed Obediah about his work: on his latest books, <i>In a China Shop, Seventy Poems,</i> and <i>Open Testament,</i> and the challenges of publishing poems in The Bahamas.]]></description>
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		<title>Water Clear as Glass</title>
		<link>http://tonguesoftheocean.org/2009/11/water-clear-as-glass/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2009 04:01:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<font color=white>.</font>
it is all theft, isn’t it
living and writing
transferring, translating
one thing, something
into something else
<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[2009 June Issue]]></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>Loose Limbs to Tie Me Up</title>
		<link>http://tonguesoftheocean.org/2009/04/loose-limbs-to-tie-me-up/</link>
		<comments>http://tonguesoftheocean.org/2009/04/loose-limbs-to-tie-me-up/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2009 05:01:37 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[2009 February Issue]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Obediah Michael Smith]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[dark woman in pink shorts
and as gifted as delight

I write because I owe you
who are so much
who give so much]]></description>
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		<title>Circles of Light</title>
		<link>http://tonguesoftheocean.org/2009/02/circles-of-light/</link>
		<comments>http://tonguesoftheocean.org/2009/02/circles-of-light/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Feb 2009 05:02:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[out of the sea,
the sun fell into, the moon rises

light you do not have to be an eagle
to stare into]]></description>
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