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	<title>In the Words of Womyn &#187; hope</title>
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		<title>Hermosura</title>
		<link>http://www.inthewordsofwomyn.com/2010/09/hermosura/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 18:25:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[~Bethany Lauren Grigsby Winter’s teeth bit our bones as we all huddled close Passing around the yerba mate and sipping it quickly, Hoping to unfreeze parts of our body that had froze It was June But instead of donning tank-tops and shorts and flip flops I was in scarves and coats and boots in rural [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Proposal</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 18:16:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[~Bethany Lauren Grigsby To my potential-but-not-guaranteed or wholly essential future male life-partner I come with a proposal That if we commit to walking down an aisle of marriage We commit to walking in a certain kind of life First order of business: Let’s take an axe and chop down that white picket fence they told [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hold on, Child</title>
		<link>http://www.inthewordsofwomyn.com/2010/08/hold-on-child/</link>
		<comments>http://www.inthewordsofwomyn.com/2010/08/hold-on-child/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Aug 2010 17:23:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[~Jennifer A. I see a teenage boy sitting across from me mind and soul trapped in a broken body; multiple strokes have left him a prisoner using art and technology we communicate silently sometimes I wonder if I had never asked this question, would he have ever shared his thoughts would there be someone to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>[untitled::wanted]</title>
		<link>http://www.inthewordsofwomyn.com/2010/07/untitledwanted/</link>
		<comments>http://www.inthewordsofwomyn.com/2010/07/untitledwanted/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Jul 2010 07:01:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[~Jennifer A. I want that roller-coaster-on-the-down-slope, caught-in-a-sudden-down-pour-on-a-summer-day, look-up-in-the-sky-just-in-time-to-catch-a-shooting-star, bought-a-ticket-on-a-whim-and-won-the-whole-jackpot, kind of love. I want that sun-coming-out-just-in-time-to-paint-brilliant-sunset, first-dripping-bite-into-ripest-nectarine, intoxicating-inhale-of-fragrant-spring-rose, cool-breath-of-night-air-washing-over-sleeping-face, kind of story. I want that magical-enchanted-firefly-evening, rhythms-bumpin&#8217;-so-loud-it-competes-with-my-heart-to-make-pulse, first-warm-ray-of-sun-after-winter&#8217;s-chill, wave-crashing-on-your-back-unaware, kind of kiss. I want that playful-wind-dancing-&#8217;round-my-face, thunder-rattling-my-bones, full-moon-illuminating-snowscape-sparkling-like-diamonds, long-drink-of-cool-water-on-a-scorching-day, kind of man. Yeah, I said it I want it all&#8211; somehow between a little girl&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What If&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.inthewordsofwomyn.com/2010/04/what-if/</link>
		<comments>http://www.inthewordsofwomyn.com/2010/04/what-if/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Apr 2010 19:54:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[~Jennifer A. what if I said it out loud what if I put it on my status what if I spoke it into a mic what if I said how much I hurt what if I said how tired I am what if I said how little hope I have what if I said how [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Will You Sow?</title>
		<link>http://www.inthewordsofwomyn.com/2010/03/what-will-you-sow/</link>
		<comments>http://www.inthewordsofwomyn.com/2010/03/what-will-you-sow/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 19:27:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.inthewordsofwomyn.com/?p=44</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[~jennifer a. In every community there spans a chasm wide between the haves, and the have nots: those who have Hope.  and those who have not while some would argue that we are defined by those who have money and those who have not I tell you this: I have been stripped of all I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Well</title>
		<link>http://www.inthewordsofwomyn.com/2010/02/the-well/</link>
		<comments>http://www.inthewordsofwomyn.com/2010/02/the-well/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Feb 2010 08:49:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.inthewordsofwomyn.com/?p=34</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8211;jennifer a. To we who are searching&#8230; for our words for our song for our poetry for our selves There are seasons of passing through deserts dry of crawling&#8211; parched and peaked&#8211; through wastelands barren And I have realized something: that while in this place of desolation no oasis did I find or rather for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>[untitled]</title>
		<link>http://www.inthewordsofwomyn.com/2010/02/untitled/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Feb 2010 08:27:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.inthewordsofwomyn.com/?p=32</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8211;Matriz Rain, my heart is bursting Tears, for my son, my helper So many deaths this week Passing us by, leaving us behind Grandfather, Grandmother, Mother They remind us that all will pass Nothing stays the same, we too Must change to meet the seasons So my heart is full of crying Also of worries, [...]]]></description>
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