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	<title>Adventures in the Word</title>
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	<description>Context is content</description>
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		<title>Star Witness</title>
		<link>http://davidherin.org/2008/12/24/star-witness/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Dec 2008 04:15:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Poetry]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[First-century history]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Magi mapped and marveled at the stars,
their questions probed beyond the earthly sphere,
grown too big for Persian ways, their minds,
nurtured by the stars, soared to find
a stellar path to worship a worthy God.
It surely must have been a brilliant star
that rose one night – a star more radiant
than all the rest, that made them [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lowly root</title>
		<link>http://davidherin.org/2008/12/11/lowly-root/</link>
		<comments>http://davidherin.org/2008/12/11/lowly-root/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2008 03:22:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Nature]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Poetry]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The lowly root unfurls itself, content to live within a darkened
world, it grows a leafless tree, inverted, digging ever deeper
without a map, micron by micron, drenched and vulnerable
with rain, then wrung to dry. Its tapered columns
anchor, buttress, steady its penthouse partner
who sways to a breeze it’ll never feel —
ugly, unseen and unthanked,
soaking, sucking, lifting
microscopic food,
keeping [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I</title>
		<link>http://davidherin.org/2008/11/30/i/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2008 02:02:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Poetry]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Conversation]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We walk down halls with unobstructed views,
they call us constantly through windows clear,
and yet we focus on our cluttered rooms
while misty mountain vistas disappear.
Our papa sits ensconced, removed, his eyes
are on his food. My siblings – silent now –
their missing conversations eulogize
the death of life that could have been allowed.
My neighbor sits alone, his fridge [...]]]></description>
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		<title>End of the Rainbow</title>
		<link>http://davidherin.org/2008/11/20/end-of-the-rainbow/</link>
		<comments>http://davidherin.org/2008/11/20/end-of-the-rainbow/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 16:47:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Poetry]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Love]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Noah’s rainbow arced across the sky
against the darkened east horizon,
receding from the setting sun – golden
and bowing low to the higher sign –
the fragile arch waves triumphantly.
The red to violet spectrum dares
us reach and touch its colors,
now suspended, embedded in air,
surely such stunning splendors
need not dazzle long, they’re quickly gone.
And in among its folds –
if [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Subdued evil</title>
		<link>http://davidherin.org/2008/11/04/subdued-evil/</link>
		<comments>http://davidherin.org/2008/11/04/subdued-evil/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 22:01:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Evil]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Poetry]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The deepest blue September sky
quickly blackened, billows overhead,
and crowds of faces open-mouthed
and speechless, sped away.
We huddled ’round our bedroom’s 13-inch
TV and stared at the insistent sight;
our kids stood for an hour in the room
but really couldn’t understand why.
Our initial thought: ‘accidental crash’
crashed and burned with tower two,
the repeated scene, just minutes in between –
our hopes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Behind / ahead</title>
		<link>http://davidherin.org/2008/10/21/behind-ahead/</link>
		<comments>http://davidherin.org/2008/10/21/behind-ahead/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2008 20:51:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Opposites]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Poetry]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Out of breath and still I lag behind
my son who’s already lapped me once,
his longer strides will never fail
to outpace mine, but I really don’t mind.
His two miles to my one just
shows how far he’ll go past me.
He’ll do things I’ve never done;
he’ll see things I’ve never seen.
The days and hours I’ve spent
on things I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>1+1=3</title>
		<link>http://davidherin.org/2008/10/09/113/</link>
		<comments>http://davidherin.org/2008/10/09/113/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 00:41:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Poetry]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Conversation]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Journal]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Love]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[At lunch I sit alone surrounded by four
other tables also taken by one –
the only other one has two, and though
face to face, they too are absent and alone.
The air of afternoon hangs over
and around us, a clouded atmosphere
of crowded thoughts and fears that stare
us down and will not leave us be.
The chair across from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Beauty of a Rose</title>
		<link>http://davidherin.org/2008/10/02/the-beauty-of-a-rose/</link>
		<comments>http://davidherin.org/2008/10/02/the-beauty-of-a-rose/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2008 21:46:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Poetry]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Journal]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Love]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I wrote the poem below the day before my mother was buried in December of 2002. I thought about reading it at her funeral, but decided against it. I thought it was too depressing at the time and I really wanted it to be just between the Lord, my mother and myself, (although I let [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nailing Love</title>
		<link>http://davidherin.org/2008/09/23/nailing-love/</link>
		<comments>http://davidherin.org/2008/09/23/nailing-love/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Sep 2008 03:04:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Poetry]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Love]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I thought I knew what love must be
and so I put it in an envelope
and affixed its label carefully,
assigned its taxonomy along
with faith and hope and dignity.
But love wouldn’t stay holed up for long;
it had a way of eating away
at its chains, so subtly, secretly
until it kindly returned the favor and
shackled me, yet I really [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dangers of Walking</title>
		<link>http://davidherin.org/2008/09/06/dangers-of-walking/</link>
		<comments>http://davidherin.org/2008/09/06/dangers-of-walking/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Sep 2008 02:09:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Poetry]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I mastered the art of walking
at least by the age of four or so.
The problem was my strides got longer –
my legs kept wanting to grow.
What could then be simpler than
a right, a left, and soon we’ve got our groove,
but careful – looks can be deceiving,
it’s tricky balancing such automatic moves.
Self-ambulation seems simple enough,
but its [...]]]></description>
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