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		<title>Pink and Blue</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 00:41:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What is marketed does reflect&#8230; but exactly WHAT it reflects is ever subjective&#8230; If the medium is the message&#8230; this scene (above) spoke to me&#8230; (Left)&#8230;of elephants who worked for peanuts for their families but burned in the end along with their contemporaries. (Right) Like the oft slaughtered pig (for her salty flesh, despite the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=maurerletters.com&#038;blog=33305972&#038;post=1312&#038;subd=stephenmaurer&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Time Marching On</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Apr 2013 05:20:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(For Stephen) Tonight I watched this incredible video of the moon rising&#160;from a link on a friend&#8217;s Facebook page. I recommend you watch it too. I don&#8217;t know about you, but for me, the swiftness of the passage of time always comes to mind when ever I witness the rising or setting of a heavenly [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=maurerletters.com&#038;blog=33305972&#038;post=1285&#038;subd=stephenmaurer&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>North Star</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Apr 2013 15:20:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[North Star I wonder what I&#8217;m doing out here, alone with squiggles on an old map, exploring a desert without roads or trails with letters from those I love alongside? Perhaps love is known best in what&#8217;s past. Evening summons, a red-orange alcove invites me to find my worn, wooden recorder and play to an [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=maurerletters.com&#038;blog=33305972&#038;post=1266&#038;subd=stephenmaurer&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Last Days</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Mar 2013 17:59:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last Days (winner, 2013 Chaparral Poetry Forum) A rusty pick-up camper slows, backs into the next space. An older man unbends from the cab, sparse grey hair filtering the sun. We nod. He eyes the nearest restrooms, measuring the distance between need and satisfaction. A gust of wind staggers him. His shirt flaps like a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=maurerletters.com&#038;blog=33305972&#038;post=1260&#038;subd=stephenmaurer&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Endings</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Mar 2013 00:24:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Endings Down south for winter&#8217;s stay, we&#8217;re old, life&#8217;s projects but memories, children left behind for awhile. We&#8217;re snowbirds who flock to red rock deserts to winter away the remorseless cold of northern climes. Here a bright unclouded sun wants to warm new life into us. Except in that sleep before dawn, when, like flies [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=maurerletters.com&#038;blog=33305972&#038;post=1245&#038;subd=stephenmaurer&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Buffy</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jan 2013 05:56:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every rare once in a while, out here in the Red Rock desert of Southern Utah, I meet another Iowan. Today I met Buffy, yes, as in Buffy, the Vampire Slayer, but she is really more a dragon slayer, she said. An Iowan if only in spirit: Idiots Out Wandering Around, she too is unafraid [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=maurerletters.com&#038;blog=33305972&#038;post=1238&#038;subd=stephenmaurer&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Veteran</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Dec 2012 04:23:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The mass-killing this last week helped me (Steve) finish a poem started over a year ago . . . Veteran Our neighbor, a decorated veteran, lived in a small home, solitary, an upstairs light on all night, a flag unfurled year-round, alone. Baggy combat fatigues on a spindly frame, at 8am everyday he locked up, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=maurerletters.com&#038;blog=33305972&#038;post=1226&#038;subd=stephenmaurer&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Dec 2012 05:21:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I still dig the poem I posted on a friend&#8217;s FaceBook wall, in a string of comments about PTSD and the Connecticut shootings yesterday. &#160;Although my choice to post it was perhaps perceived a bit too dark for that particular thread&#8211;as evidenced by the comments in the other direction&#8211;I posted it as a philosophical offering [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=maurerletters.com&#038;blog=33305972&#038;post=1190&#038;subd=stephenmaurer&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>200 Years of Independence</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Dec 2012 05:42:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the only quilt I have ever made&#8211;though I think only I helped with one or two squares. The same year it was constructed my parents took me out of school and drove my little brother and me from Grinnell, IA to our state&#8217;s capital of Des Moines to see the Liberty Bell, which [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=maurerletters.com&#038;blog=33305972&#038;post=1180&#038;subd=stephenmaurer&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Thanksgiving Weekend Driveby</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Nov 2012 17:07:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thanksgiving Weekend Driveby The mannish driver was dressed in women&#8217;s clothing, late 50s, thick brow and chin, Adam&#8217;s apple, fits of greasy hair pushing angles under the mesh of an old lady hat. His companion rose up from off his lap, a homely girl somewhere between 14 and 25 years old, looking more like ten [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=maurerletters.com&#038;blog=33305972&#038;post=1155&#038;subd=stephenmaurer&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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