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		<title>GRAND AGAIN</title>
		<link>http://downtownster.com/2010/05/grand-again-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 May 2010 18:04:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stan Lerner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Foreword by Stan Lerner: it&#8217;s that season again, when we should all take a little time and travel around the country. One of my greatest adventures (August 2008) took me to the state of Michigan where I explored Greenfield Village and then headed for Mackinac Island&#8211;what an incredible place! There I sat and wrote the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spheres</title>
		<link>http://downtownster.com/2009/10/spheres/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 07:01:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carlos Phelps</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[fear]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[flying]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[football]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[kiss]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[moon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[throat]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We walked for blocks
and talked through my fears.
The fear was a football
in my throat that went flying
as we held each —
Through the trees it climbed
to become the moon with a kiss.
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		<title>THE RAVEN</title>
		<link>http://downtownster.com/2009/10/the-raven/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 20:15:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stan Lerner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Foreword by Stan Lerner: Edgar Allan Poe was finally given a funeral befitting one of the greatest writers to have ever lived—a debt of gratitude is owed to the city of Baltimore for this. Edgar Allan Poe and I share January 19th as a birthday and it is the poem below that he wrote just [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Love Flight</title>
		<link>http://downtownster.com/2009/10/love-flight/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2009 07:01:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carlos Phelps</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[yelling]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I woke up
before the sun.
But I was not the first;
my brother saw to that.
Our clothes
in the closet stared at us.
In the distance a man
and women yelled.
Muffled by the door
we couldn&#8217;t tell who it was.
But it didn&#8217;t matter
because we knew.
I&#8217;m grown now
and married over twenty years.
Still I remember
those sleepless nights.
We would wake up
before the sun.
But we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>By The Tree</title>
		<link>http://downtownster.com/2009/09/by-the-tree/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2009 07:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carlos Phelps</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[bark]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[dancing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[parade]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pattern]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Robins]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A cool breeze leads
a dancing pattern,
and wreckage is free
where ants work the bark.
Robins sing
of playful work,
and black birds parade
contrasting duos.
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		<title>Dawn Words</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2009 07:01:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carlos Phelps</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dawn is near as I park in front
the blinking meter on Eleven Street.
The city is waking and the birds lead
as I cross the street to the coffee house.
At five thirty AM the lock clicks
and the brew pulls me to the counter.
With cup in hand I lay a notebook
on the round table to collect my words.
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		<title>The Acorn to the Tree</title>
		<link>http://downtownster.com/2009/08/the-acorn-to-the-tree/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2009 07:01:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carlos Phelps</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A year has passed
since that day we began.
We were not friends,
but lovers we were as we danced
in the wind like two unknowns.
Twenty-five days
have passed since the end.
I have fallen away
and find myself lost in the grass.
The sun burns my mind.
Since that day
I long for you,
but you go on reaching higher.
I feel myself growing weak
for I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Poets on the Corner of 5th and Main</title>
		<link>http://downtownster.com/2009/08/poets-on-the-corner-of-5th-and-main/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2009 19:56:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alec Silverman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Poetry]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[downtown]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[pharmaka gallery]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Thursday, August 27th, at eight- o’clock, The Third Area presents the last poetry reading of the summer at Pharmaka gallery on the corner of 5th and Main.  This is an extraordinary opportunity for readers to get a dose of vital and utterly current poetry read by the top notch poets themselves, in a setting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Got More Poetry</title>
		<link>http://downtownster.com/2009/08/got-more-poetry/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2009 19:15:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alec Silverman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A reminder to poetry lovers, Pharmaka has “The Third Area” poetry reading featuring four poets with wine and noshes on Thursday, August 27th.  Below the info are two poems new to downtownster by famous Persian poets.
Pharmaka Gallery
101 West 5th Street (corner of 5th and main)
Los Angeles
(213) 689-7999
“The Third Area” poetry reading series at Pharmaka takes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Introductions</title>
		<link>http://downtownster.com/2009/08/introductions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2009 07:01:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carlos Phelps</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Head leaning down and my eyes closed
The cool wind blows in through the window.
Music playing and images of last night rush by
shifting speed with the temperature of my forehead.
Once in a while something slips in between
the words, images, and music exploding within my brain.
An old friend comes to me from the radio
taking me back to [...]]]></description>
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