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		<description>The original writings of author Michael Oliver</description>
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			<description>Says t all</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/michaeloliver/2804248/</link>
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			<title>Two winter Haiku</title>
			<description>looking out of my window</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/michaeloliver/2804247/</link>
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			<title>and again</title>
			<description>been waiting for this morning when the tree in the garden does this</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/michaeloliver/2151571/</link>
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			<title> two thoughts  - after looking</title>
			<description>Two unrlated thoughts while sitting looking out of my window at about 9:45 this morning</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/michaeloliver/2151386/</link>
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			<title>walls</title>
			<description>still looking and still thinking</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/michaeloliver/2151385/</link>
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			<title>still looking</title>
			<description>thought this might have been a rambling exposition - but no </description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/michaeloliver/2151114/</link>
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			<title>more looking</title>
			<description>What it sayd on the tin</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/michaeloliver/2150909/</link>
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			<title>some progress</title>
			<description>&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;The eleventh hour arrives&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;Inthe first strike - my silence&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;Time falls unstopped in its arc&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;The hissinggas boilin..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/michaeloliver/2150681/</link>
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			<title>yet another observation</title>
			<description>&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;Beneath blue sky&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Andbrisk white clouds&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/michaeloliver/2150680/</link>
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			<title>Another week 4</title>
			<description>going a bit obstuse again</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/michaeloliver/2150582/</link>
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			<title>Another week 3</title>
			<description>just thinking</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/michaeloliver/2150468/</link>
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			<title>Another week 2</title>
			<description>just looking just thinking </description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/michaeloliver/2150332/</link>
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			<title>Another week 1</title>
			<description>something simple</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/michaeloliver/2150201/</link>
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			<title>At sunset - an attempt at compline</title>
			<description>Written several moneths ago - again still not sure may be work still inprogress</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/michaeloliver/2150091/</link>
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			<title>observastion 7</title>
			<description>It may be the last this is becoming a bit addictive</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/michaeloliver/2150087/</link>
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			<title>observtion 6</title>
			<description>another in a daily sequence beginning to think in terms of quantum mechanics sometbing i have been trying to elucidate myself about</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/michaeloliver/2149974/</link>
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			<title>Observation 5</title>
			<description>A flthy morning but even so ...</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/michaeloliver/2149825/</link>
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			<title>Observation 4</title>
			<description>Today in a cerebral mood hence :-</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/michaeloliver/2149690/</link>
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			<title>Vaughn williams on a hot day</title>
			<description>Thoughts about hearing VW's Fantassy on a theme of ThomasTallis in the middle of a heat wave. Was unsure if I ever concluded this piece there are so many ways it can go.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/michaeloliver/2149570/</link>
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			<title>Observation 3</title>
			<description>Grey November establishes soveriegnty</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/michaeloliver/2149568/</link>
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			<title>Observation 2</title>
			<description>one if a series of exercises about looking and clarity</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/michaeloliver/2149473/</link>
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			<title>Observation</title>
			<description>something I just swa</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/michaeloliver/2149157/</link>
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			<title>Dinner with Tim</title>
			<description>It is about dinner with Tim - my friend of over thirty years , these ideas occured to me a couple of weeks ago while cooking at his house</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/michaeloliver/2148433/</link>
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			<title>four line haiku</title>
			<description>&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; A grey morning&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; A black rook rests&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/michaeloliver/2147703/</link>
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			<title>night haiku</title>
			<description>this has taken me days to get write</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/michaeloliver/2147587/</link>
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			<title>CAT?</title>
			<description>a brief contemplation on an incident I saw while travelling</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/michaeloliver/2145933/</link>
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			<title>some Haiku</title>
			<description>exercises</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/michaeloliver/2145551/</link>
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			<title>Mist </title>
			<description>one of those image works</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/michaeloliver/2145223/</link>
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			<title>Busker</title>
			<description>An observation while waiting for a but</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/michaeloliver/2094070/</link>
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			<title>Watch</title>
			<description>About an object not a biscuit</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/michaeloliver/2093902/</link>
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			<title>Musing in sixteen lines </title>
			<description>A memory filtered by 45 years </description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/michaeloliver/2069641/</link>
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			<title>Notes from a Midsummer</title>
			<description>I went to St. Albans our local cathedral city on midsummer's day - these are some observations of events that occured to me while there.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/michaeloliver/2068743/</link>
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			<title>Observations </title>
			<description>Ideas , notes from life , idle thoughts </description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/michaeloliver/2061107/</link>
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			<title>Arcadia</title>
			<description>Was watching a programme that included footage of the oracle at Delphi got me thinking about my own time and the number of redundant churches that now just decorate the landscape around here</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/michaeloliver/2057148/</link>
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			<title>Haiku exercises</title>
			<description>just practicepeices from every day life</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/michaeloliver/2050086/</link>
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			<title>On Holding </title>
			<description>An oeservation the other day the use of the word 'like ' as some form of punctuation and the way these days we all seem to hold things phones cards etc</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/michaeloliver/2037975/</link>
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			<title>The Rook </title>
			<description>A short group of connected verses</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/michaeloliver/2005592/</link>
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			<title>Group Portrait No 2</title>
			<description>&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;D&amp;rsquo;yaknow what I mean Michael&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/michaeloliver/1929130/</link>
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			<title>Group Portrait No 1</title>
			<description>&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;If it is black it&amp;rsquo;s Kev&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbs..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/michaeloliver/1916697/</link>
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			<title>The Green Osiris</title>
			<description>&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;A definition of a space&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;As sunlight on floodwater&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/michaeloliver/1915418/</link>
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			<title>Easter again Easter</title>
			<description>&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;And a radiant id &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Moonsann..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/michaeloliver/1913523/</link>
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			<title>The world afloat</title>
			<description>The world afloat&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;Incarnate- God eats soil &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;While a normal mum &quot; looks&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;And infinity f..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/michaeloliver/1910611/</link>
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			<title>Three clumsy Haiku</title>
			<description>I opened the doorThe spider was awokenIn the running - sorrow&amp;nbsp;The moment aliveA wren punctuates a branch And wet white droplets&amp;nbsp;The white of blossoms Escape the curve of the branchCaptured in the air</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/michaeloliver/1901655/</link>
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			<title>The falling leaf</title>
			<description>No points of erudition this smooth fallingNo point of the progress to articulateEven a green spiral of given thoughtBelies the time the space and speculation</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/michaeloliver/1841332/</link>
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			<title>The Lost Suns</title>
			<description>Wondering why films of setting suns had such a hold on my emotions</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/michaeloliver/1822981/</link>
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			<title>upon the stream - a quiet day</title>
			<description>improvisation</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/michaeloliver/1779556/</link>
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			<title>Coffee Shops no.2</title>
			<description>Absorbed in his island -hand heldA round table - a solo questThe daily news of silentsignalsThere be dragons beyondthe coffee&amp;nbsp;The window clears - tohumdrum lifeThe fleshed profile - the bald outlineSweat shirt blue stripes - the enfoldingAbsorption in spe..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/michaeloliver/1775003/</link>
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			<title>On coffee shops No. 1</title>
			<description>The head turns - the spaceburrowedBlack eyes wedged in theeye cornerAcross the bridge of annoyedconnection The critical look ofintrusion met&amp;nbsp;A white blouse -a cream bagA tied headscarf - an auraof selfThe assumption skims &amp;nbsp;- but lockedaway Agai..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/michaeloliver/1750854/</link>
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			<title>Judgement Day</title>
			<description>Swung -turn- glared - into a &amp;nbsp;seat Happen so - glance and hormone utterancedReason &amp;nbsp;gone - &amp;nbsp;no encoding or ignoringA deadpan turmoil of tranced fancyA barn balanced on the horizonBeing a limit at the &amp;nbsp;limitA hover roof - an open doorA short expression from occupant airWinds inbre..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/michaeloliver/1741783/</link>
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			<title>Cat</title>
			<description>Waiting for a friend to come yesterday morning there was a cat sitting in the long grass at the bottom of my garden in the fine rain</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/michaeloliver/1735791/</link>
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