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		<title>Rainstorm Mushrooms</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jun 2022 14:36:30 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Climate and other outdoor factors converge and create a landscape where mushrooms rarely thrive. When they do, I&#8217;m always fascinated by the fungal structures that peek from the suburban landscape before shriveling up and disappearing again. dormant sporeslurking hidingbidinghidden in cool crevicesdesiccateddown among nooks of decayundaunted by days of darkaridchillbut a reprieve water rain moisturesoaking [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>trails chill blight</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[The Foodie]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Nov 2021 16:43:46 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[We ran in the fresh snow last night. It was cold and potentially dangerous, a truth unceremoniously marked by an encounter with the local emergency services at work in the dark, chill below the trails. pow&#8217;dree treads in i&#8217;see dark.en frozen. blust&#8217;ring. cold. nay, starkthern&#8217;winds whorl, rustle, haunt thas&#8217;night.four, boundless, b&#8217;yond trails chill blight. tha&#8217;sun [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>daylight</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Nov 2021 02:18:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Dawn hides itself deeper in the morning,As night&#8217;s darkness waxes upon winterYear after year, as predictable as Lunar orbits bring the tides andIce drawn heaps of crystalline snow Greet shortened hours of sunlightHonouring plotted courses through space andTime and seasons passing now and ever. &#8211; bardo I have reserved some space on this blog each [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>How to Draw; a Poem</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[The Foodie]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Oct 2021 03:30:27 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I’ve been doing a lot of sketching and watercolour in my free time. I won’t claim that it’s anything amazing &#8230; not yet &#8230; but I’m enjoying my newfound hobby and I feel like I’m starting to see the world in one of two ways, things that I could paint or things that I would [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Equinox</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[The Foodie]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Sep 2021 16:02:30 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[four hundred and sixtymeters per secondtracking a prograde elliptical orbitan average of nearlyone hundred and fifty million kilometersaround a nuclear fireballimmenseseven hundred thousand kilometers widea wet ball of rockbarely sixty three hundred kilometers thickaskew on her axistwenty-three degreestouches a mathematical momentbriefly marking the progress throughcold space againstever-shifting durations of light uponher surfacenudging atmospheric variationstriggering biological [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>new old older</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[The Foodie]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Sep 2021 02:20:41 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[young green leaves, rooted intorough hewn stump, anchored uponrich forest soil, draped acrosscragged heavy stone, wedged alongancient sweeping mountains, jutting fromshifting geological faults, slipping aroundrevolving green orb, floating invast mysterious universe &#8211; bardo I have reserved some space on this blog each week to be creative, and to post some fiction, poetry, art or prose. Writing [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Whirls Clear Water</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2021 15:38:38 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[by powerful strokeslevering solid against fluidan oar pushing on crystal waterdelving deftly and deepby muscular heft against molecular dragplunging paddlesscooping by effort to counter frictionblurring stillness into motionunseen effort into swirling chaosbelow the calming tranquilityof a kayak drifting upon the lake &#8211; bardo I have reserved some space on this blog each week to be [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Misinformed</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 May 2021 15:20:46 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[the momenta treefalls in the forestcrashesbreaking branchesthrashing limbscracking woodmakes a soundheard by just onewitnesswho tells the story to friendswho were not therean audienceunable to confirmthe momentthe noisethe disruption to the peace of the forestexaggeratedamplifiedby wordsfeelingshunchesfearsmisrepresenting andunable to preciselyarticulatethe moment &#8211; bardo I have reserved some space on this blog each week to be creative, and [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>firewood</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[The Foodie]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Apr 2021 14:03:41 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[the fate of a tree brings a curious twiststarting as seed on wind, through misttucked into the soilspattered with rainsprouting and growing new heights to attainshrugging snow, budding leafbasking summers often briefsunlit evenings casting long shadowsbrilliant colours before even more snowsyear after year, decades pass, seasons withdrawuntil fate arrives as a windor a flameor a [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Those Woodpecker Winters</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[The Foodie]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Apr 2021 12:55:16 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[”Wake up! Wake up!” The woodpecker knocks, flying from tree trunk to tree trunk, swooping gracefully between the branches. “Spring is here. Wake up!“ Against the pale white bark of the poplar trees, her red crest hat can be seen by all the creatures of the forest, like a flame alight in dark meadow. “Wake [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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