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		<title>A Tiny Glow</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2008 15:28:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Without the moon or stars to guide his sight, without<a href="http://leoyankevich.com/archives/26"> <br /><br /> (Read More)…</a>]]></description>
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		<title>A Warning to Dissidents</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2008 15:22:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yes, pretty soon now they&#8217;ll be at your door. They&#8217;ve<a href="http://leoyankevich.com/archives/25"> <br /><br /> (Read More)…</a>]]></description>
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		<title>After the Old Masters</title>
		<link>http://leoyankevich.com/archives/144</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:23:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The father looks up to the sky or ceiling (beyond<a href="http://leoyankevich.com/archives/144"> <br /><br /> (Read More)…</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Cracow at Dawn</title>
		<link>http://leoyankevich.com/archives/19</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 21:43:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[1. Beneath the clouds in the corner of my faithless<a href="http://leoyankevich.com/archives/19"> <br /><br /> (Read More)…</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Crossing Geneva Marsh</title>
		<link>http://leoyankevich.com/archives/325</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Jan 2011 21:34:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mist lingers on the surface of stagnant tea-brown water. The<a href="http://leoyankevich.com/archives/325"> <br /><br /> (Read More)…</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Crow</title>
		<link>http://leoyankevich.com/archives/173</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 19:35:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Crow, the doves descending on the square have sullied your<a href="http://leoyankevich.com/archives/173"> <br /><br /> (Read More)…</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Despair</title>
		<link>http://leoyankevich.com/archives/20</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 21:49:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Alone in the dark, the blood of blackberries dripping down<a href="http://leoyankevich.com/archives/20"> <br /><br /> (Read More)…</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Don Quixote</title>
		<link>http://leoyankevich.com/archives/34</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Oct 2008 05:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Suddenly, I am astride a donkey with Sancho Panza. As<a href="http://leoyankevich.com/archives/34"> <br /><br /> (Read More)…</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Ezra Pound Enters the Tent</title>
		<link>http://leoyankevich.com/archives/27</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2008 15:34:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[No, this is not a station in the metro, this<a href="http://leoyankevich.com/archives/27"> <br /><br /> (Read More)…</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Grey Oak</title>
		<link>http://leoyankevich.com/archives/29</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2008 20:46:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I turn the stony corner where the graveyard begins. Today<a href="http://leoyankevich.com/archives/29"> <br /><br /> (Read More)…</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Journey Late at Night</title>
		<link>http://leoyankevich.com/archives/396</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jun 2011 18:16:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My little boat unmoored, I&#8217;ve drifted under stars, but do<a href="http://leoyankevich.com/archives/396"> <br /><br /> (Read More)…</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Manichaeans</title>
		<link>http://leoyankevich.com/archives/167</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 17:29:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Indistinguishable from the dark, a rat crawls through debris. Above,<a href="http://leoyankevich.com/archives/167"> <br /><br /> (Read More)…</a>]]></description>
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		<title>No Flowers, No Doves</title>
		<link>http://leoyankevich.com/archives/31</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 13:51:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; When we entered the burning city charred corpses greeted<a href="http://leoyankevich.com/archives/31"> <br /><br /> (Read More)…</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Obituary</title>
		<link>http://leoyankevich.com/archives/43</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Oct 2008 06:05:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Today I leaf through the obituaries and find out<a href="http://leoyankevich.com/archives/43"> <br /><br /> (Read More)…</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Old Meerschaum Pipe</title>
		<link>http://leoyankevich.com/archives/387</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 May 2011 20:50:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; A friend sent a pipe made from petrified sea<a href="http://leoyankevich.com/archives/387"> <br /><br /> (Read More)…</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Praised Be</title>
		<link>http://leoyankevich.com/archives/298</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jun 2010 14:38:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Praised be the ugly and the beautiful, the slow decay<a href="http://leoyankevich.com/archives/298"> <br /><br /> (Read More)…</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Quasimodo</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 21:58:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As he lies mid his retinue of rats, oblivious to<a href="http://leoyankevich.com/archives/21"> <br /><br /> (Read More)…</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Saturday Market</title>
		<link>http://leoyankevich.com/archives/338</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Jan 2011 21:48:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Yabka, apples, slivki, plums. She points to fruit with<a href="http://leoyankevich.com/archives/338"> <br /><br /> (Read More)…</a>]]></description>
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		<title>St. Martin’s Cemetery</title>
		<link>http://leoyankevich.com/archives/24</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2008 04:52:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[New Derry, Westmoreland County, PA &#160; Grandfather Lawrence, whom I<a href="http://leoyankevich.com/archives/24"> <br /><br /> (Read More)…</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Starless</title>
		<link>http://leoyankevich.com/archives/193</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 May 2010 23:15:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; I fingered the bone, and traced where the axe<a href="http://leoyankevich.com/archives/193"> <br /><br /> (Read More)…</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Swallows</title>
		<link>http://leoyankevich.com/archives/187</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Feb 2010 08:37:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; It was once thought that swallows wintered on the<a href="http://leoyankevich.com/archives/187"> <br /><br /> (Read More)…</a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Idiot</title>
		<link>http://leoyankevich.com/archives/16</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 00:02:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Whenever I sit with the village idiot, it&#8217;s always with<a href="http://leoyankevich.com/archives/16"> <br /><br /> (Read More)…</a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Last Silesian</title>
		<link>http://leoyankevich.com/archives/177</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 20:43:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Above us: cawing rooks and grey clouds. Around us: leafless<a href="http://leoyankevich.com/archives/177"> <br /><br /> (Read More)…</a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Scarecrow</title>
		<link>http://leoyankevich.com/archives/259</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jun 2010 17:50:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Drunk on clouds and yesterday’s rain, his hollow eyes would<a href="http://leoyankevich.com/archives/259"> <br /><br /> (Read More)…</a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Snowman</title>
		<link>http://leoyankevich.com/archives/292</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jun 2010 06:04:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Emperor of the Universe of pain jutted his upper<a href="http://leoyankevich.com/archives/292"> <br /><br /> (Read More)…</a>]]></description>
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		<title>To Love This Flesh</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 00:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[To love this flesh, its rivers and valleys, its fruits,<a href="http://leoyankevich.com/archives/15"> <br /><br /> (Read More)…</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Visiting my Dead Grandmother&#8217;s Cottage</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 00:03:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lithuania, 1966 Visiting her cottage I remember ripe ears of<a href="http://leoyankevich.com/archives/17"> <br /><br /> (Read More)…</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Wake Cake</title>
		<link>http://leoyankevich.com/archives/33</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 15:30:36 +0000</pubDate>
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