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			<title>A Candle in the Night</title>
			<description>Even a homeless Drifter can make a difference...</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/mjsmith3352/2811816/</link>
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			<title>A Night Under the Falling Stars</title>
			<description>A foray into romance. Hopefully, without being vulgar or sappy.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/mjsmith3352/2810829/</link>
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			<title>Behind the Mask</title>
			<description>Inspired by the pandemic...</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/mjsmith3352/2809456/</link>
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			<title>Reading Poetry To My Dog</title>
			<description>Something a little more light-hearted...</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/mjsmith3352/2809455/</link>
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			<title>What The Drifter Read in the Newspaper</title>
			<description>What to say? Even drifters hear the news...</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/mjsmith3352/2808212/</link>
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			<title>The Ghosts of Roswell</title>
			<description>Wrote this as a campfire poem...</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/mjsmith3352/2807898/</link>
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			<title>Left Here To Die</title>
			<description>An old man near his death has been abandoned in a nursing home...</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/mjsmith3352/2807893/</link>
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			<title>Song of the Snow Ghost</title>
			<description>Out of time and space, a song calls the heart that is ready to listen...</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/mjsmith3352/2807891/</link>
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			<title>My Favorite Memory</title>
			<description>My set of wheels...</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/mjsmith3352/2806481/</link>
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			<title>The Lights Went Out That Night</title>
			<description>Just an odd poem about chess...</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/mjsmith3352/2806480/</link>
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			<title>Tornado</title>
			<description>A few thoughts in the wake of a tornado which passed through a neighboring town in 2009...</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/mjsmith3352/2806478/</link>
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			<title>Stolen Kiss</title>
			<description>Another of my rare love poems...</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/mjsmith3352/2806477/</link>
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			<title>Whose Woods These Are</title>
			<description>A parkland in summer...</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/mjsmith3352/2806474/</link>
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			<title>Never an Absolution</title>
			<description>One of my rare love poems.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/mjsmith3352/2805535/</link>
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			<title>Tears of the Moon</title>
			<description>An environmental write...</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/mjsmith3352/2805301/</link>
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			<title>Dawn</title>
			<description>Nature poetry, freeverse</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/mjsmith3352/2805300/</link>
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			<title>Theme For A Storm</title>
			<description>A series of haiku strung like beads...</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/mjsmith3352/2805299/</link>
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			<title>The Bat</title>
			<description>Nature, freeverse</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/mjsmith3352/2805298/</link>
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			<title>The Testimony of a Tree's Ghost</title>
			<description>If we could hear them, would it break our hearts?</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/mjsmith3352/2804293/</link>
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			<title>The Fallow Field</title>
			<description>What The Drifter saw when passing a Kansas farm...</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/mjsmith3352/2804291/</link>
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			<title>Moonlight As seen By a Poet</title>
			<description>The first poem I ever posted online...</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/mjsmith3352/2804289/</link>
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			<title>Dear Daughter</title>
			<description>When time and duty call us away, the heart longs for home, hearth, and those we love best. Enough said</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/mjsmith3352/2803008/</link>
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			<title>Black Beauty's Revenge: A Shooter's Song</title>
			<description>When demons stalk our souls, nightmares become reality...</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/mjsmith3352/2802916/</link>
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			<title>A Spring Lament</title>
			<description>The things The Drifter couldn't outrun...</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/mjsmith3352/2802915/</link>
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			<title>Riding Interstate 44</title>
			<description>A selection from my CD, Life in the Saddle</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/mjsmith3352/2802914/</link>
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			<title>The Funeral</title>
			<description>A story I once told around a campfire...</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/mjsmith3352/2801813/</link>
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			<title>For the Dragons</title>
			<description>Before they were hunted men loved them...</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/mjsmith3352/2801811/</link>
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			<title>Letter From a Gargoyle</title>
			<description>What might they say if they could fly down and visit humans?</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/mjsmith3352/2801810/</link>
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			<title>The Dream</title>
			<description>A poem I posted on a site now closed.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/mjsmith3352/2801506/</link>
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			<title>Aftermath</title>
			<description>The Drifter Begins His Journey, The first poem from my CD, Life in the Saddle.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/mjsmith3352/2801496/</link>
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			<title>Twilight Courtship</title>
			<description>Ah, the foibles of youth...</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/mjsmith3352/2801178/</link>
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			<title>Last Night on Earth</title>
			<description>Saying goodbye to an old friend...</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/mjsmith3352/2800617/</link>
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			<title>A Night in the Chat Piles</title>
			<description>A childhood memory...</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/mjsmith3352/2800246/</link>
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			<title>A Drifter's New Year's Eve</title>
			<description>Just a short story. Hope you like it.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/mjsmith3352/2799515/</link>
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			<title>Midnight on Main Street</title>
			<description>Just some thoughts from a drifter...</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/mjsmith3352/2799193/</link>
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			<title>Christmas Eve in a Small Town</title>
			<description>Haiku</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/mjsmith3352/2798681/</link>
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