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	<title>Jeffrey Steen</title>
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		<title>A Thousand Splendid Hymns</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 03:08:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[O! Were ever that false hope to bloom some hundred year! I should have known it for the creaking soot she was. O! And I am cracked, like clay too hot was fired! In the hands of children, tossed to pieces on the ground. O! Honey stirs the stomach well, but conquers veins their course!...]]></description>
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		<title>Dreams of the Fisherman</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 19:30:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Peter casts the nets, Helps the winded bow to break Against the gust which Winsome cracks against the Stern; it rides between Our brows. I breathe against the galloping air; the wind that was Whipping from the mid-morn, but in the Fifth watch of the night, swallows Still. Andrew of the shoreline Watches well, Sunday,...]]></description>
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		<title>Hope Abides in the Death of Civil Unions</title>
		<link>http://countriesandcrossroa.ipage.com/2012/05/09/hope-abides-in-the-death-of-civil-unions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 16:27:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Colorado]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Between the empty banter of filibustering Republicans in committee yesterday, I asked myself how I would react to the passage or failure of a civil unions bill in Colorado. I wasn&#8217;t asking as a gay man, but as a gay Christian man. Immediately, I rebuffed: Why should being Christian make any difference? But it does, somehow....]]></description>
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		<title>Superfluous Son of these States</title>
		<link>http://countriesandcrossroa.ipage.com/2012/05/08/superfluous-son-of-these-states/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 19:41:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I remember the pom-pom-toting teens of my high school English class like fourth period was yesterday—or, better yet, like an NBC sitcom run one season too long. Something always seemed a little off about forcing fashion-obsessed 17-year-olds to focus on classic works of literature. Never, you see, did Mary Kay quite mesh with the racial...]]></description>
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		<title>Carpenter&#8217;s Apprentice</title>
		<link>http://countriesandcrossroa.ipage.com/2012/05/07/carpenters-apprentice/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 14:52:23 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Poetry]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I learned today, a thing or two Of carpentry. It says, and I have swallowed it like air: “Nail to wood.” But sometimes, as the hammer curls beneath Tightfisted palms And nails are plucked from too-low jeans The two cannot concur. Is it nail to wood, direction? Is it nail to wood, injunction? Or have...]]></description>
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		<title>I came across an ant today</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 May 2012 17:52:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I came across an ant today, as I was on my way And stared at him through broken lenses: black and gray You should have seen how wily, how oddly smiley That miniscule creature liked to be: his teeth all shiny. Now what do I know of ants or of their stance When it comes...]]></description>
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		<title>Dear Dan, About the Bible</title>
		<link>http://countriesandcrossroa.ipage.com/2012/05/03/dear-dan-about-the-bible/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2012 15:21:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; In response to a video clip I saw on Facebook/YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ao0k9qDsOvs *** Frankly, I&#8217;m getting a little tired of defending Christianity. It&#8217;s not really a full-blown defense, but more of a subtle education. I walk the line, as Johnny would say, between two communities with bared teeth on either side: Christians and LGBT individuals. However...]]></description>
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		<title>A Case for Fish</title>
		<link>http://countriesandcrossroa.ipage.com/2012/05/02/a-case-for-fish/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2012 17:31:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[dr. seuss]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Let me explain, said the fish. There are two of us, one red and Incidentally, one blue. There’s a great deal going around About a red-and-white top hat, And how we fish are something of Astronomers and car fanatics. But it’s all bunk. And frankly, your Unseemly habit of pointing out Our weight problem is...]]></description>
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		<title>Mammie Makes Some Tea</title>
		<link>http://countriesandcrossroa.ipage.com/2012/04/30/mammie-makes-some-tea/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 18:20:01 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Reflection]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now Mammie sit by that old iron pot, and she sets &#8216;er on the boil. Now and then the child&#8217;un gone and play awhile, till the air get thick and gritty like some ol&#8217; mash done Mammie made. They play an&#8217; play an&#8217; screamin&#8217; fits through ev&#8217;ning and the light gone away. That be Tuesday,...]]></description>
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		<title>Innocent Writes of Spring</title>
		<link>http://countriesandcrossroa.ipage.com/2012/04/28/innocent-writes-of-spring/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Apr 2012 20:42:35 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Letter]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[My dear Hohenstaufenin, Does it not seem to you the kiss of spring is a traitorous one? Winter beats on us with her merciless winds, her belts of falling snow, her pure disinterest in the blue-black cold. Carrying on, as captives, we endure, lusting after brighter days. Is it any wonder that every year we...]]></description>
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