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	<title>Getting Something Read &#187; Darla Himeles</title>
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		<title>Your Mother&#8217;s Mouth</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Oct 2011 05:29:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Darla Himeles</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Darla Himeles Your mother&#8217;s mouth, luscious oh, forms around her thumb as she scratches her middle knuckle with her teeth. Ah, she mutters, I found her, as she snatches your earring from the couch. You, hollowed out and silver, are holding your own on another couch, digging into another mouthed oh, but your mother [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Silk Weaver</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jul 2011 19:06:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Darla Himeles</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Darla Himeles Your friendships, smooth silk filigrees, intertwined for the sake of ornamentation, do nothing but knot you into yourself, and you come to me to breathe, to pretend I am the gem in your center, when we both know you&#8217;ve spun me silken into your art and I am no longer anything for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I Am the Water</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Oct 2010 06:36:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Darla Himeles</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Darla Himeles To consider your bare chest without my head there your fingers messing my hair You now travel between islands by air and I am the water]]></description>
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		<title>Smog</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Sep 2010 03:52:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Darla Himeles</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Darla Himeles I went out to buy smog today after two years away from my concrete Pacific, my crashing head smelling waves as I landed at the storefront where smog is sold as an eye shadow color. It is not the same as my heavy home horizons, but it is perfect. &#8211; n. mixture [...]]]></description>
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		<title>March</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:15:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Darla Himeles Moist leaves in after-rain One turns the other in sensual thrusts They jolt above the sidewalk sigh in thunderheartbeats as they fall one upon the other]]></description>
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		<title>Writing Fibs</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2008 16:13:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Darla Himeles</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Darla Himeles Last month, I wrote about the value in breaking out of forms, of tweaking them to keep them interesting and current. Â This month, I&#8217;d like to introduce you to a little form called the fib. Â When we were young, telling or writing fibs was worthy of punishment; with these fibs, there is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Looking for Little Odes</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Oct 2008 00:21:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Darla Himeles</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Darla Himeles Last week, a friend noted that a couple of odes I&#8217;d written were unusually short and focused for the form. Â An ode is traditionally longer than twelve lines, after all, and it is usually musing, philosophical, even meandering. Â It was an observation free from judgment, but it made me curious: what makes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Darla Himeles &#8211; Selected Readings</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2008 01:05:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Darla Himeles, a graduate of Bryn Mawr College&#8217;s English and Education programs, has published poetry in The Peralta Press, Mad Poets Review, and here at Getting Something Read, and her work is forthcoming in Poetica Magazine. Each summer, Darla teaches creative writing to high school girls in the Writing for College summer program at Bryn [...]]]></description>
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