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		<title>Life In Transition (A Hope for the Future)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Oct 2010 16:25:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>E. Gerald Oberman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Life is in transition. What was once a living ideal, a fading moment of temporary life perfection, a comfort in an unknown and glorious position of self, has seamlessly woven itself into a state of chaotic readjustment. Thirty days ago I was in Boulder, Colorado beaming with a love I had never felt so righteously [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=egeraldoberman.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10883589&amp;post=286&amp;subd=egeraldoberman&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Unity of Being</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Sep 2010 01:12:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the breath of blustery trees, the silence of sleeping forests, the rise and fall of cricket cadences: I find a unity of being. A wind from mine own lungs, I watch it wrap around trunks, fresh sprouts and paws: A unity of being. In the wet caress of Florida mornings, the sensuous heat of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=egeraldoberman.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10883589&amp;post=284&amp;subd=egeraldoberman&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Yeah, So, Dreams&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Sep 2010 01:03:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yeah, the dreams keep coming. Like Florida rain, Denver snow. Falling, drifting, cascading down my back&#8211;like fingers, like knees, like the sound their friction breeds. &#8220;But they&#8217;re just dreams.&#8221; and you&#8217;re just nuclei spinning dizzy in your cells. Yeah, so, dreams. of snakes. of trees. of falling. of white robes and long over-due apologies. There [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=egeraldoberman.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10883589&amp;post=282&amp;subd=egeraldoberman&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Hunt:  Stage 1</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Sep 2010 00:57:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[First thing I look for is a little mystery in the eyes. See, there are those of us that stare at things. And then there are those of us who stare through things. You know what I&#8217;m talking about. Filed under: Fiction, Writing<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=egeraldoberman.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10883589&amp;post=280&amp;subd=egeraldoberman&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>My Words</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Sep 2010 00:56:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>E. Gerald Oberman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My words are the only haven I have. My retreat at night after the door locks. The sheets crumple. My hideout. My lair. My words are childhood forts built out of sheets and broom sticks, where I gobble down words with hungry eyes. My words are the realities of my dreams. My metaphors are false [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=egeraldoberman.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10883589&amp;post=278&amp;subd=egeraldoberman&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Summer Hermetical</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Sep 2010 00:51:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[She is highly compressed stardust dancing down from the firmament. A ballet, swirling bouquet of jasmine, teal and blustery gray rain days; I am a struggling Cartesian metaphor doubting my own existence. She is tingling triangles tremulous between a rising baritone brass and a Dizzy lung crescendo. A promenade Madonna&#8217;s twilight glint&#8211;a wink. I am [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=egeraldoberman.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10883589&amp;post=276&amp;subd=egeraldoberman&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Manifest of a Lustful Millennium</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Sep 2010 00:46:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>E. Gerald Oberman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A jungle of monsters tearing skylines, clouds black barrage against the sun as if to say: These are our skies now, we are the Keepers of the Dawn. Their cells pitter-patter, close the eye-lids on whims, yellow fluorescents, sharp whites, pale blue eyes pulsing random rainbow montages against the night as if to say: This [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=egeraldoberman.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10883589&amp;post=274&amp;subd=egeraldoberman&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>My People</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Sep 2010 00:45:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My People are wicker baskets beneath a Sinai sun, withering in wait for Moses and the Unborn Son. My people are dusty red, dry tears caked dead into seas hungry to be parted; to be saved. My people are nasal birds under squalid olive branches, squawking never-mores into the ears of corpses. My people are [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=egeraldoberman.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10883589&amp;post=272&amp;subd=egeraldoberman&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Learning to Fly (again)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Sep 2010 00:44:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The act of falling, like flying towards the ground. &#8220;Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.&#8221; Like dancing between rods of fire, with the blushed hands of love gripped tight against waist, against hip. As the ocean of our veins begins to rock, to sway, to samba. I&#8217;m so tired [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=egeraldoberman.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10883589&amp;post=270&amp;subd=egeraldoberman&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Broken Bones and Coffee</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Sep 2010 00:41:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>E. Gerald Oberman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some day I&#8217;d like to buy you coffee. Make up for the cigarettes I quit smoking, shortly after I missed your plane take off. Missed the smell of your exhaust: hot ash of all the words I missed upon my face as the great salt expanse of distance took you away into my dreams. Some [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=egeraldoberman.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10883589&amp;post=268&amp;subd=egeraldoberman&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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