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    <td valign="top" align="left" height="1200"><p><strong><font color="#FF6600" size="4" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Out
            of My Skin<br>
    </font></strong><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="09Monarch.htm">Monarch</a></font><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="07Matter_of_Scale.htm"><br>
        A
        Matter of Scale</a><br>
        <a href="07Heat_Wave.htm">Heat Wave</a><br>
        <a href="07Poet and Pet.htm">Poet and Pet</a><br>
        <a href="09Awakening.htm">Awakening</a><br>
        <a href="07Rebirth.htm">Rebirth</a></font><br>
        <font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="09A_Reasonable_Life.htm">A Reasonable Life</a></font> </p>
      <p><strong><font color="#FF6600" size="4" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Snapshots
        2006</font></strong><br>
        <font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="06Haikus.htm">Haikus</a><br>
        <a href="06Hush_Listen.htm">Hush and Listen</a><br>
        <a href="06Faces.htm">Faces</a><br>
        <a href="06Lizard_Thoughts.htm">Lizard Thoughts</a><br>
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      <p><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="4"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="4"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="4"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="4"><font color="#FF6600"><b>Poems
                    2005 &#8212;<br>
        <font size="3">Passion &amp; Discontent</font><br>
      </b></font></font></font><font size="1"><a href="05Absence_poem.htm">Absence</a><br>
      <a href="05Blind_poem.htm">Blind</a><br>
      <a href="05Dance_poem.htm">Dance</a><br>
      <a href="05Dry_poem.htm">Dry</a><br>
      <a href="05WakeDisaster_poem.htm">The Wake of Disaster</a></font></font></font><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="4"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="4"><font size="1"> <br>
      <a href="05Evening_poem.htm">Evening</a><br>
      <a href="05MamasTears_poem.htm">Mama's Tears</a><br>
      <a href="05Nude_poem.htm">Nude</a><br>
      <a href="05OldFurniture_poem.htm">Old Furniture</a><br>
      <a href="05Petroglyphs_poem.htm">Pertoglyphs</a> </font></font></font><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="4"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="4"><font size="1"><br>
      <a href="05Rest_poem.htm">Rest</a><br>
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      <a href="05SoundsEmptyPromise_poem.htm">Sounds of an Empty Promise</a><br>
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      <a href="05Vientos_poem.htm">Vientos del Mediterr&aacute;neo</a><br>
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      <a href="05GivingIn_poem.htm"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Giving
      In</font></a></p>
      <p><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="4"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="4"><font color="#FF6600"><b>Poems
                2004</b></font></font><font color="#FF6600"><b><br>
        </b></font><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="4"><font size="1"><a href="LaoTsu_poem.htm">The
        Dissappearance of Lao Tsu</a><br>
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        <a href="PiazzolasTango_poem.htm">The Colors of Piazzolla's
      Tango</a></font></font></font></p>
      <p align="left"><font face="Helvetica, sans-serif, Arial Black, Verdana" size="2"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="4" color="#FF6600"><b>War
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                  Cash</a><br>
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                  <a href="NakedPoetry_poem.htm">&quot;Naked Poetry&quot;</a><br>
                <a href="SunflowerSonnet_poem.htm">Sunflower Sonnet
                No. 1.5</a></font></p>
      <p align="left"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="4"><font color="#FF6600"><b>New
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          <a href="SanitationWorker_poem.htm"> SanitationWorker, NYC</a><br>
          <a href="Gentrification_poem.htm"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="4"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Gentrification </font></font></a><font color="#FF6600"><b><br>
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        <a href="WestChelsea_poem.htm">West Chelsea</a></font></font></p>
      <p><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="4" color="#FF9933"><b><font color="#FF6600">P</font></b></font><font color="#FF6600"><b><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="4">oems
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            Society</b></font><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="5" color="#000000"><br>
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                <a href="MakingFriends_poem.htm">Making Friends</a><br>
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                <a href="Anonymous.htm">Anonymous</a><br>
                <a href="DowncastEyes_poem.htm">Downcast Eyes</a><br>
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              <p align="left"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="4" color="#FF6600"><b>In 
                France</b></font><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="5" color="#000000"><br>
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    <td align="left" valign="top" colspan="2" height="1070"> <font size="4" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Between 
      Heartbeats</b></font> 
      <p><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Heartbeats 
        reflecting universes like soap-bubbles, stretching time<br>
        then bursting, dropping their worlds damply into my cocoon.</font></p>
      <p><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Blooming 
        sunlight through the dappled shadows of leaves,<br>
        quail calls competing like plaintive cats' meows<br>
        heavy with the scent of skunks, tasting like burnt coffee.<br>
        Morning breath of soft salty skin lingering like jasmine<br>
        then scurrying out of the light<br>
        as the housewife with her can of Raid curses cockroaches.</font></p>
      <p><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Scott Simon, 
        Susan Stamberg: it must be Saturday.<br>
        Could sleep longer, but poetry<br>
        and heat-parched plants are shaking me<br>
        softly like a lullaby.<br>
        Her caress, suspended, poised to crash,<br>
        breaks upon his shrouded shore,<br>
        pulling Monsieur S<br>
        into the welcome abyss,<br>
        a turbulent tide which he cannot resist<br>
        as he strips the barnacles off the pilings<br>
        holding up Monday through Friday<br>
        when he will again follow the winding road<br>
        to Flagstaff at this hour.</font></p>
      <p><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Don T&eacute;o 
        says, &quot;Yo ense&ntilde;o en la c&aacute;rcel.&quot;<br>
        &quot;At least I have a captive audience,&quot; he jokes,<br>
        but he is not joking, ex-Peace Corps in County Detention.<br>
        We use language to pry young minds open<br>
        in the third-world country of adolescence <br>
        each day as we try to start a revolution.</font></p>
      <p><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">But today 
        is Saturday,<br>
        and I can drift between heartbeats.</font></p>
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