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	<title>Warrior Poets</title>
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		<title>Jean Varda &#8211; Treesit</title>
		<link>http://armedwithvisions.com/2012/05/19/jean-varda-treesit/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 May 2012 20:41:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DeaneTR</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Jean Varda]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[civil disobedience]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[deforestation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[forest protection]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Logging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mike Mercker]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[occupy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ragged steel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[toxic chemicals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tree]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tree climbing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[treesit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Treesitting]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Swaying in the breeze, your boat, your child&#8217;s rocket ship made from climbing rope and tarps woven from one ancient conifer to the other with banner hanging in between every light breeze every sprinkling of needles moves you sensitively on pine scented air You said you can see beauty from up there in between the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jean Pearson &#8211; Seed Pod And Resinous Cone</title>
		<link>http://armedwithvisions.com/2012/05/17/jean-pearson-seed-pod-and-resinous-cone/</link>
		<comments>http://armedwithvisions.com/2012/05/17/jean-pearson-seed-pod-and-resinous-cone/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 23:16:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DeaneTR</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Jean Pearson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ecology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ecosophy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mike Mercker]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://armedwithvisions.com/?p=2744</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160; &#8230;many of these poems show such linking of human to nature, present to past, to achieve or at least move closer to, the lost unity. The first poem in the book, &#8220;Seed Pod and Resinous Cone,&#8221; shows the observation of Nature as the first step. From: Trumpeter, Journal of Ecosophy &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jenny Armetta &#8211; West Fork</title>
		<link>http://armedwithvisions.com/2012/05/14/jenny-armetta-west-fork/</link>
		<comments>http://armedwithvisions.com/2012/05/14/jenny-armetta-west-fork/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 19:27:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DeaneTR</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Jenny Armetta]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[arid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[creek]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ecology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Juniper]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mike Mercker]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pinyon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wind]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; The wind moves slowly beneath me. A dream! For this short time I can see everything&#8211; Crumbling crimson mountain, blue-green Juniper sea Silver silky ribbon of creek. Spiraling upwards I stretch my blue-black arms and sing with the place that is me! Jenny Armetta May 1996 Earth First!]]></description>
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		<title>Jean Varda &#8211; River</title>
		<link>http://armedwithvisions.com/2012/05/13/jean-varda-river/</link>
		<comments>http://armedwithvisions.com/2012/05/13/jean-varda-river/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 May 2012 19:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DeaneTR</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Jean Varda]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bowing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dawn]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Deer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fresh water]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gestures]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mike Mercker]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[muddy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[river]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[salmon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[VibeTribe Healing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Willow]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://armedwithvisions.com/?p=2719</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I am tiny fragments of light on your glistening surface I am moist smell smoothness of rock I am the few remaining salmon unslaughtered and free their gills opening and closing with living breath their cold transparent skin I am the willows bending and bowing dipping their feathery branches their roots drinking deeply from muddy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>James Bogan &#8211; A Charm To Explode Popcorn</title>
		<link>http://armedwithvisions.com/2012/05/09/james-bogan-a-charm-to-explode-popcorn/</link>
		<comments>http://armedwithvisions.com/2012/05/09/james-bogan-a-charm-to-explode-popcorn/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 19:06:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DeaneTR</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[James Bogan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Agriculture in Mesoamerica]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Comet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[energy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Maize]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mike Mercker]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Molotov cocktail]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Native American cuisine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nut]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Popcorn]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Staple foods]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Volatile variable]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://armedwithvisions.com/?p=2706</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[O Terrorist of the vegetable world burst your golden prison! O Second Cousin of the Mexican jumping-Bean the summer sun&#8217;s booming energy compacted within your shell release! O Nova-Nut, microbang image of our macrobang cosmos&#8211; hear my conjuring voice and expand! Let popping kernel comets careen about the kitchen. O Molotov Cocktail of the Peaceful [...]]]></description>
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		<title>David Albano &#8211; Little Red Riding Hood Is A Liar</title>
		<link>http://armedwithvisions.com/2012/05/04/david-albano-little-red-riding-hood-is-a-liar/</link>
		<comments>http://armedwithvisions.com/2012/05/04/david-albano-little-red-riding-hood-is-a-liar/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2012 17:51:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DeaneTR</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[David Albano]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[camping]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Canada]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Grey Wolf]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Howl]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lake Ontario]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mike Mercker]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ontario]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wolf]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://armedwithvisions.com/?p=2697</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; (Diamond Lake Ontario) I snap upright smell of thick dark slumber dissolves skin tingles ears prick a deep howl shimmers about my tent less conquered and more myth than the moon I can only imagine the source eyes squeezing shut black snout pointing triangle ears furled moonlight bristling on rust-gray fur [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jim Morrison &#8211; The Wolf</title>
		<link>http://armedwithvisions.com/2012/05/03/jim-morrison-the-wolf/</link>
		<comments>http://armedwithvisions.com/2012/05/03/jim-morrison-the-wolf/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2012 03:05:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DeaneTR</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Jim Morrison]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bathing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cool]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[howls]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Water]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wolf]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[wolves]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://armedwithvisions.com/?p=2687</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; The Wolf, who lives under the rock has invited me to drink of his cool Water. Not to splash or bathe But leave the sun &#038; know the dead desert night &#038; the cold men who play there. &#8211;Jim Morrison]]></description>
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		<title>Art Goodtimes &#8211; Art of Getting Lost</title>
		<link>http://armedwithvisions.com/2012/05/02/art-goodtimes-art-of-getting-lost/</link>
		<comments>http://armedwithvisions.com/2012/05/02/art-goodtimes-art-of-getting-lost/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2012 22:04:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DeaneTR</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Art Goodtimes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[adventure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chaos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Colorado]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ecology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[found]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lost]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mancos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[merckecanyonlands]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Montezuma County]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Natural Disaster]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sheep Mountain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Venus Kali]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[wilderness]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://armedwithvisions.com/?p=2674</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[-for Ed &#160; losing it it&#8217;s dangerous Pinon look closely it&#8217;s the place that takes you away that takes you away it&#8217;s Mancos Shale that takes you away &#38; you&#8217;re suddenly just another neopagan zenmother Buddhada learning pandemonium toking pure chaos Cougar in the headlights takes you away Venus Kali clone takes you away take [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kenneth Rexroth &#8211; Great Nebula of Andromeda</title>
		<link>http://armedwithvisions.com/2012/05/01/kenneth-rexroth-great-nebula-of-andromeda/</link>
		<comments>http://armedwithvisions.com/2012/05/01/kenneth-rexroth-great-nebula-of-andromeda/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 20:50:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DeaneTR</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Kenneth Rexroth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Andromeda constellation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Andromeda Galaxy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Local Group]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[May Day]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nebula]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Spiral galaxies]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://armedwithvisions.com/?p=2668</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160; We get into camp after dark, high on an open ridge looking out over five thousand feet of mountains and mile beyond mile of valley and sea. In the star-filled dark we cook our macaroni and eat by lantern light. Stars cluster around our table like fireflies. After supper we go straight to bed. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jeri McAndrews &#8211; In Dew</title>
		<link>http://armedwithvisions.com/2012/04/29/jeri-mcandrews-in-dew/</link>
		<comments>http://armedwithvisions.com/2012/04/29/jeri-mcandrews-in-dew/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Apr 2012 22:54:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DeaneTR</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Jeri McAndrews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hooves]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[horses]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[roundup]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[VibeTribe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[wild]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://armedwithvisions.com/?p=2652</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; How much simpler is running in a small group through wet grass than worrying about being loved With soft ears up we run landing from leaps our hooves hit a two-at-a-time cadence We chew river willows swallow creek wetness blink and query did that thing move is it threatening us? We [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rebecca Swan &#8211; Love</title>
		<link>http://armedwithvisions.com/2012/04/27/rebecca-swan-love/</link>
		<comments>http://armedwithvisions.com/2012/04/27/rebecca-swan-love/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2012 20:33:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DeaneTR</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Rebecca Swan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[environmental movement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ivory-billed Woodpecker]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[love]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mysteries]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[puppy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Redwoods]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://armedwithvisions.com/?p=2643</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Love. What this planet needs, What the environmental movement needs, What we all need is love. To get out there and do what Needs to be done now. When you really love something No mountain is too high, No valley too low, No sacrifice too great. And it&#8217;s going to take that kind of Power [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bob Finkbine &#8211; Blood In The Stone</title>
		<link>http://armedwithvisions.com/2012/04/26/bob-finkbine-blood-in-the-stone/</link>
		<comments>http://armedwithvisions.com/2012/04/26/bob-finkbine-blood-in-the-stone/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2012 20:04:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DeaneTR</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bob Finkbine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Antietam]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Auschwitz]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bunker Hill]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Carthage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Matkatimba]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mike Mercker]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mossy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sharpening]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sun]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://armedwithvisions.com/?p=2637</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Mountains let slip their tributaries, blue ribbons sliding over smooth stone, over mossy browns, slipping in and out of pools, cascading over rock, sharpening their knives for the carving of flamed walls far below. The west wind blows fine grains of sand stirring ghosts who will not speak. &#160; Sun-leathered lines on our faces, we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Don Ogden &#8211; Have A Nice Day</title>
		<link>http://armedwithvisions.com/2012/04/25/don-ogden-have-a-nice-day/</link>
		<comments>http://armedwithvisions.com/2012/04/25/don-ogden-have-a-nice-day/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2012 20:47:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DeaneTR</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Don Ogden]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bears]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Department of Behavior It]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mark Davis It]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[officer]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://armedwithvisions.com/?p=2628</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160; &#160; &#8211;for Mark Davis It was another public notice This one from the Department of Behavior It resurrected the old merchandising expression from the last millenium: &#8220;Have a Nice Day&#8221; As the accepted official salutation among 21st Century humans. Bear didn&#8217;t care what the notice said But he knew human treachery (while in captivity, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dennis Fritzinger &#8211; I Stand For What I Stand On</title>
		<link>http://armedwithvisions.com/2012/04/20/dennis-fritzinger-i-stand-for-what-i-stand-on/</link>
		<comments>http://armedwithvisions.com/2012/04/20/dennis-fritzinger-i-stand-for-what-i-stand-on/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2012 20:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DeaneTR</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Dennis Fritzinger]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Conservation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mother Earth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Old-growth forest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stand]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://armedwithvisions.com/?p=2617</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[i stand for what i stand on if what i stand on is a muddy swamp with leeches or the bottom of a rice paddy or a mountain. i stand for what i stand on if it&#8217;s a waving meadow with tall grasses a forest clearing or the compacted duff of a centuries old old [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Amie Diller &#8211; Under Our Feet</title>
		<link>http://armedwithvisions.com/2012/04/19/amie-diller-under-our-feet/</link>
		<comments>http://armedwithvisions.com/2012/04/19/amie-diller-under-our-feet/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2012 01:42:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DeaneTR</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Amie Diller]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Earth First! Warrior Poets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[blood boils]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Drift mining]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lava]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Steven Graves]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://armedwithvisions.com/?p=2603</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160; &#160; I want to leave the city and go live on the land,&#8221; I said. &#8220;Where do you think you are living now?&#8221; he asked. &#8220;What do you think is beneath your feet?&#8221; We say concrete is dirt, beneath dirt is rock, beneath rock is molten fire. We forget it is the skin and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Carlos Purple Bear &#8211; California Grizzly Republic</title>
		<link>http://armedwithvisions.com/2012/04/18/carlos-purple-bear-california-grizzly-republic/</link>
		<comments>http://armedwithvisions.com/2012/04/18/carlos-purple-bear-california-grizzly-republic/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2012 02:19:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DeaneTR</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Carlos Purple Bear]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bear]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Extinction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Flag of California]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Grizzly Bears]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Predators]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Steven Graves]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Immortal great bear Shadow bear, ghost bear, memory bear Flag flapping emblem High on mast From state capitol To truck stop station The bear no more Is flying forever Memory bear Roaming your kingdom Memory bear ain&#8217;t driving Big trucks Memory bear ain&#8217;t the Politician Memory bear don&#8217;t Swear allegiance Roaming man-beast Atop crystal peaks [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alley Cat Rutabaga &#8211; Pedaling Thru</title>
		<link>http://armedwithvisions.com/2012/04/17/alley-cat-rutabaga-pedaling-thru/</link>
		<comments>http://armedwithvisions.com/2012/04/17/alley-cat-rutabaga-pedaling-thru/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2012 18:57:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DeaneTR</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alley Cat Rutabaga]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Culture of the Southern United States]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kudzu]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mike Mercker]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Roadkill]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Pedaling thru hills shrouded in rain Every leaf murmurs the sounds Of the highway Past the countless, strangled eyes of roadkill With their toupees of blood &#38; brains Over mud-filled water Carrying the land downriver Where it will be the soil Of a new America Or the fertility Of a greater nothingness, Life being too [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ellen Cooney &#8211; Time in the Forest</title>
		<link>http://armedwithvisions.com/2012/04/16/ellen-cooney-time-in-the-forest/</link>
		<comments>http://armedwithvisions.com/2012/04/16/ellen-cooney-time-in-the-forest/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Apr 2012 08:23:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DeaneTR</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ellen Cooney]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ecology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[forest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Glimmer Train]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Massachusetts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Massachusetts Artists Foundation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mike Mercker]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MIT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[National Endowment for the Arts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ontario Review]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Literary Review]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The New Yorker]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Time]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[writer]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; the time of Sun and green youth the time of Rain with its sparkling diamonds the time of Fog and silvering the time of Fire with its ruby crackling the time of Stillness and deep rootedness the time of Wind whirling whistling the time of Ice and white oblivion the time of Stars and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>William Stafford &#8211; Roll Call</title>
		<link>http://armedwithvisions.com/2012/04/12/william-stafford-roll-call/</link>
		<comments>http://armedwithvisions.com/2012/04/12/william-stafford-roll-call/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2012 18:18:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DeaneTR</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[William Stafford]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bison]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Black-footed Ferret]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dodo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Elk]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[endangered species]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ferret]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[for us all]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mike Mercker]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Prairies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tapered head]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Weasels]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Red Wolf came, and Passenger Pigeon, the Dodo Bird, all the gone or endangered came and crowded around in a circle, the Bison, the Irish Elk, they waited silent, the Great White Bear, fluid and strong, sliding from the sea, streaming and creeping in the gathering darkness, nose down, bowing to earth its tapered [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ellen Klaver &#8211; On This Mountain</title>
		<link>http://armedwithvisions.com/2012/04/10/ellen-klaver-on-this-mountain/</link>
		<comments>http://armedwithvisions.com/2012/04/10/ellen-klaver-on-this-mountain/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2012 03:57:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DeaneTR</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ellen Klaver]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Birch]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bird nest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Deer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Downy Woodpecker]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Knowing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mike Mercker]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Picoides]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Woodpeckers]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[For Le Lion Couchant I know where the downy woodpecker nests each spring, each year where the old stone wall is half buried under maple leaves where secret glacial signatures mark the rocks where the quiet place the deer drink is cool and dark, moist green space where the first birch leaves yellow and fall [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wendell Berry &#8211; Peace of Wild Things</title>
		<link>http://armedwithvisions.com/2012/04/09/wendell-berry-peace-of-wild-things/</link>
		<comments>http://armedwithvisions.com/2012/04/09/wendell-berry-peace-of-wild-things/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Apr 2012 08:59:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DeaneTR</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Wendell Berry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ecology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Grief]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[heron]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[peepaseed]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[stars]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[wild]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[wilderness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[worry]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound &#160; in fear of what my life and my children&#8217;s lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Peggy Sue McRae &#8211; Breathe Deep</title>
		<link>http://armedwithvisions.com/2012/04/08/peggy-sue-mcrae-breathe-deep/</link>
		<comments>http://armedwithvisions.com/2012/04/08/peggy-sue-mcrae-breathe-deep/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Apr 2012 23:32:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DeaneTR</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Peggy Sue McRae]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[air]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Breathe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Death]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ecology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[life's cycle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oxygen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[trees]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Water]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; Breathe deep, the tree. Breathe in, the tree breathes out. Breathe out, the tree breathes in. Feel the bond of shared breath. Mourn deep, the sea. Tears returning, cloud to ocean, Life&#8217;s watery womb. Share the bond of our origin. Die deep, the earth. Blood [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Randall Restless &#8211; Room to Roam</title>
		<link>http://armedwithvisions.com/2012/04/06/randall-restless-room-to-roam/</link>
		<comments>http://armedwithvisions.com/2012/04/06/randall-restless-room-to-roam/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Apr 2012 19:14:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DeaneTR</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Randall Restless]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[freedom]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Grizzly]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[joy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[love]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[open space]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[roam]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Bear]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[wilderness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[wildlife]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[YouTube]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8216;Cross the West the Bear once wandered But her habitat&#8217;s been squandered By the creature that calls itself wise And is but a fraction the Grizzly&#8217;s size. Wide country and wild she needs For safety from vile human deeds To roam unhindered and free And pursue her own destiny. Muscles roll under silvertip fur Her [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Peter Blue Cloud &#8211; The Cry</title>
		<link>http://armedwithvisions.com/2012/04/05/peter-blue-cloud-the-cry/</link>
		<comments>http://armedwithvisions.com/2012/04/05/peter-blue-cloud-the-cry/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Apr 2012 07:41:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DeaneTR</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Peter Blue Cloud]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[coyote]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Creation myth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Crying]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dream]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dreaming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Every Day I Have to Cry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mike Mercker]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Personal life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Peter Blue]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Psychotherapy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Symbols]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From Wiki: &#160; Peter Blue Cloud (Aroniawenrate) (born 1935 &#8211; 2011) was a Mohawk poet, and folklorist. He was born on the Caughnawaga Reserve in Kahnawake, Quebec, Canada and died in Montreal on April 27, 2011. &#160; In the late 1950&#8242;s, he traveled to California, where he was employed as an ironworker in the Bay [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jane Hirshfield &#8211; For The Epiphytes</title>
		<link>http://armedwithvisions.com/2012/04/03/jane-hirshfield-for-the-epiphytes/</link>
		<comments>http://armedwithvisions.com/2012/04/03/jane-hirshfield-for-the-epiphytes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 21:25:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DeaneTR</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Jane Hirshfield]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Algae]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chemical elements]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dielectrics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[epiphytes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lichen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mike Mercker]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[moss]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nitrogen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oxygen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Seaweed]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Seaweeds]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; Dedicated to: Lobaria, Usnea, Witches Hair, Map Lichen, Beard Lichen, Ground Lichen, Shield Lichen Back then, what did I know? The names of subway lines, busses, How long it took to walk twenty blocks. &#160; Uptown and downtown. Not north, not south, not you. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gail Rudd Entrekin &#8211; Blue Whales</title>
		<link>http://armedwithvisions.com/2012/04/02/gail-rudd-entrekin-blue-whales/</link>
		<comments>http://armedwithvisions.com/2012/04/02/gail-rudd-entrekin-blue-whales/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 01:15:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DeaneTR</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gail Rudd Entrekin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Blue Whale]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cetaceans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mike Mercker]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Whale]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Blue whales are out there somewhere, six thousand of the hundreds of thousands that once roamed the planet&#8217;s seas. Now separated from each other by thousands of miles, they moan their loneliness four octaves below middle C, so low, so slow, we humans cannot even hear. But on our ocean liners and in our lighthouse [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sparkle Plenty &#8211; The Cutting Zone</title>
		<link>http://armedwithvisions.com/2012/03/30/gary-snyder-the-cutting-zone/</link>
		<comments>http://armedwithvisions.com/2012/03/30/gary-snyder-the-cutting-zone/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Mar 2012 00:14:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DeaneTR</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Sparkle Plenty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Astringent]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Blur]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[forest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hush]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Logging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Medicine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mike Mercker]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mountainside]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[philosophy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[roads]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sawteeth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Scar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sentience]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[trees]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[the road scar glares white in the summer heat it sprawls, slumbering snakelike against the mountainside forest voices hush at the warning plume of passage silence is dispelled by the rasping whine sentient violence voiced by machine sawteeth blur a funeral keen halt only at the fibrous ripping fall on the road below senses are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Adrienne Rich &#8211; For The Record</title>
		<link>http://armedwithvisions.com/2012/03/29/adrienne-rich-for-the-record/</link>
		<comments>http://armedwithvisions.com/2012/03/29/adrienne-rich-for-the-record/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Mar 2012 22:24:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DeaneTR</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Adrienne Rich]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The time has come to honor the passing of Honorary Warriorpoet Adrienne Rich (1929-2012). Today the New York Times described her as: &#8220;a poet of towering reputation and towering rage, whose work was distinguished by an unswerving progressive vision and a dazzling, empathic ferocity.&#8220; Adrienne Rich once said: &#8220;We may feel bitterly how little our [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Steve Toth &#8211; Nature&#8217;s Course</title>
		<link>http://armedwithvisions.com/2012/03/28/steve-toth-natures-course/</link>
		<comments>http://armedwithvisions.com/2012/03/28/steve-toth-natures-course/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Mar 2012 19:05:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DeaneTR</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Stevet Toth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alligator]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cognitive science]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Consciousness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[human intelligence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kangaroo rat]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mike Mercker]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Owl]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[philosophy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Psychology]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A kangaroo rat is so efficient it can go a whole lifetime without taking a single drink of water An alligator only needs an inch &#038; a half above the surface of the water to see hear &#038; smell you An owl can glide in silence &#038; with pinpoint hearing locate a mouse tunneling in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Will Inman &#8211; This Water</title>
		<link>http://armedwithvisions.com/2012/03/27/will-inman-this-water/</link>
		<comments>http://armedwithvisions.com/2012/03/27/will-inman-this-water/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Mar 2012 08:37:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DeaneTR</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Will Inman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Blood]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mike Mercker]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Waste]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Water]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[do not waste this water&#8217;s rare as blood, this pulse draws from earthheart, from the great turning moon pulls, too, and sun and your own thirst every draw and shove is the beat of god&#8217;s breath, waste this water, waste your own life is to cherish, no not grab but just love put your hands [...]]]></description>
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