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		<title>Consolidation</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2013 00:05:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Siah Salma Bangai</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Reader, The likes, follows and whatnot have done my spirit and writing over the few brief years I have been sharing quotes with you. However, the times they do change and so must I. I have imported my diary into my main blog, http://stilllivingonmyfeet.com.  During my not infrequent post hiatuses, I scour the Internet [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=diaryofamadreader.com&#038;blog=9048430&#038;post=810&#038;subd=moyamba&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Reflections on the Boston Marathon</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Apr 2013 16:46:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am against terror in any of its manifestations. Any of its manifestations? How many manifestations can terror have? Isn&#8217;t it strictly Islamic fundamentalist? Growing up as a black immigrant girl child in Boston during the late 70&#8242;s and 80&#8242;s, I have to say no. In fact, I have to say more than no. I [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=diaryofamadreader.com&#038;blog=9048430&#038;post=806&#038;subd=moyamba&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Four Steps Required to Keep Monsanto OUT of Your Garden</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Apr 2013 13:07:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Siah Salma Bangai</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reblogged from word pond: The Four Steps Required to Keep Monsanto OUT of Your Garden. Read more&#8230; 3 more words In addition to being a mad reader, I am an urban gardener-in-progress even if I am currently limited to balcony gardening.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=diaryofamadreader.com&#038;blog=9048430&#038;post=805&#038;subd=moyamba&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>God in Her Infinite Wisdom Sends Crows  by Christina Pacosz</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Apr 2013 13:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reblogged from word pond: God in Her Infinite Wisdom Sends Crows by Christina Pacosz For weeks now God has been trying to send messages with what is available. Leaves, a thousand eyelids opening, the iridescent scrawl of slugs, mundane waterfalls dripping off eaves, the rare sunlight and daily gift of mud. And God has been [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=diaryofamadreader.com&#038;blog=9048430&#038;post=804&#038;subd=moyamba&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Picking On Rick Ross: Runt of the Hip Hop Litter</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Apr 2013 12:33:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reblogged from Phillis Remastered: I’m a radical Black feminist and proud of it, but I don’t call myself an activist. I write and once in a while I get paid for it, but that’s about it. You’re not going to see me marching in the streets or getting arrested, mainly because I was a victim [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=diaryofamadreader.com&#038;blog=9048430&#038;post=803&#038;subd=moyamba&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Letter to Dr. Martin Luther King ~ Sonia Sanchez (National Poetry Month, Day 4)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Apr 2013 19:03:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Martin, Great God, what a morning, Martin! The sun is rolling in from faraway places. I watch it reaching out, circling these bare trees like some reverent lover. I have been standing still listening to the morning, and I hear your voice crouched near hills, rising from the mountain tops, breaking the circle of [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=diaryofamadreader.com&#038;blog=9048430&#038;post=795&#038;subd=moyamba&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Requiem for a Nest ~ Wanda Coleman (National Poetry Month, Day 3)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Apr 2013 19:44:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Siah Salma Bangai</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[the winged thang built her dream palace amid the fine green eyes of a sheltering bough she did not know it was urban turf disguised as serenely delusional rural nor did she know the neighborhood was rife with slant-mawed felines and those long-taloned swoopers of prey, she was ignorant of the acidity &#38; oil that [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=diaryofamadreader.com&#038;blog=9048430&#038;post=792&#038;subd=moyamba&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Evening Primrose ~ Rita Dove (National Poetry Month, Day 2)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Apr 2013 18:54:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Siah Salma Bangai</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Poetically speaking, growing up is mediocrity &#8211; Ned Rorem Neither rosy nor prim not cousin to the cowslip nor the extravagant fuchsia- I doubt anyone has ever picked one for show, though the woods must be fringed with their lemony effusions. Sun blathers its baronial endorsement, but they refuse to join the ranks. Summer brings [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=diaryofamadreader.com&#038;blog=9048430&#038;post=788&#038;subd=moyamba&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New World ~ Derek Walcott (National Poetry Month, Day 1)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Apr 2013 11:28:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Then after Eden, was there one surprise? O yes, the awe of Adam at the first bead of sweat. Thenceforth, all flesh had to be sown with salt, to feel the edge of seasons, fear and harvest joy that was difficult, but was, at least, his own. The snake? It would not trust on its [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=diaryofamadreader.com&#038;blog=9048430&#038;post=785&#038;subd=moyamba&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Those Bones Are Not My Child ~ Toni Cade Bambara (excerpt)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Mar 2013 21:07:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You&#8217;re on the porch with the broom sweeping the same spot, getting the same sound-dry straw against dry leaf caught in the loose-dirt crevice of the cement tiles. No phone, no footfalls, no welcome variation. It&#8217;s 3:15. Your ears strain, stretching down the block, searching through schoolchild chatter for that one voice that will give [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=diaryofamadreader.com&#038;blog=9048430&#038;post=781&#038;subd=moyamba&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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