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		<title>The Overthinking Person’s Drinking Game</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2013 15:38:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reblogged from Thought Catalog: When you experience a vague sense of inequity or deprivation but don’t have a template for whether your expectations are fair, drink. When you aren’t sure whether the lingering sensation that you aren’t liked enough is a rational response to unfair circumstances or is in fact symptomatic of your tendency to [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=amyjosprague.wordpress.com&#038;blog=13071154&#038;post=3779&#038;subd=amyjosprague&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>All You Have to Do</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 20:13:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy Jo Sprague</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In this sleepy little town down behind the milkweed to the hidden trail that winds through the pines and then, breaking &#160; sun &#160; just like that &#160; and once the light has teared your eyes you see the water like a memory like a dream &#160; like when you were a little girl it [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=amyjosprague.wordpress.com&#038;blog=13071154&#038;post=3776&#038;subd=amyjosprague&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Little Joni Mitchell Today</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 13:41:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy Jo Sprague</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[music]]></category>

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		<title>Poets Nick Flynn and Matthew Dickman</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2013 20:13:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy Jo Sprague</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been awhile since I shared some of my favorite poems, so here goes.  These are poems by the incredibly talented Nick Flynn from his book Some Ether (also the author of Another Bullshit Night in Suck City which was turned into the movie &#8220;Being Flynn&#8221;) and Matthew Dickman from his All-American Poem book of [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=amyjosprague.wordpress.com&#038;blog=13071154&#038;post=3753&#038;subd=amyjosprague&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>You a City</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2013 19:18:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy Jo Sprague</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[creative nonfiction & memoir]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m standing on the roof of a four-story building downtown in a city.  I&#8217;ve just taken Ecstasy.  I don&#8217;t feel ecstasy.  I feel what I learned later to be verging on psychotic, panic.  I&#8217;m going to jump off if someone doesn&#8217;t stop me, if someone doesn&#8217;t touch me.  These arms aren&#8217;t mine. The sky is [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=amyjosprague.wordpress.com&#038;blog=13071154&#038;post=3751&#038;subd=amyjosprague&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Found Myself Today Singing</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2013 18:32:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy Jo Sprague</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well it&#8217;s been awhile since I&#8217;ve written just a post on what&#8217;s up with me lately.  Maybe because what&#8217;s up is confusing and yet somehow dull to me.  A couple of great things are happening&#8211;I&#8217;m seeing a new psychologist who leaves around the bend across the lake and I think she&#8217;s&#8230;brilliant.  Fucking brilliant.  The first [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=amyjosprague.wordpress.com&#038;blog=13071154&#038;post=3746&#038;subd=amyjosprague&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Otis Redding &#8220;Cigarettes and Coffee&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Apr 2013 15:02:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy Jo Sprague</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[oh this song&#8230;me and Emma in our little apartment, it&#8217;s raining, lilacs everywhere, black coffee and cigarettes on the porch under the awning while she sleeps, the blues floating lazily through my yellow curtains&#8230; Filed under: music Tagged: cigarettes and coffee, music, Otis Redding, rainy day music, song of the day<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=amyjosprague.wordpress.com&#038;blog=13071154&#038;post=3736&#038;subd=amyjosprague&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>My Obsession, Tab Benoit</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Apr 2013 14:42:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy Jo Sprague</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[music]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[louisianna blues]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tab Benoit, a bluesy southern soulful gritty singer is probably my favorite artist of the last decade.  I can&#8217;t get enough of that voice.  I saw him in Chicago and it was incredible.  There&#8217;s a bit of talking here at first but sit thru it, I promise it&#8217;s worth it! &#160; Filed under: music Tagged: [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=amyjosprague.wordpress.com&#038;blog=13071154&#038;post=3732&#038;subd=amyjosprague&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Bukowski Quote</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Apr 2013 14:05:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy Jo Sprague</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ART]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I found this on facebook so I don&#8217;t know who made it&#8230;. Filed under: ART, Authors on Writing Tagged: Bukowski, bukowski quotes, the writing life, writing<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=amyjosprague.wordpress.com&#038;blog=13071154&#038;post=3725&#038;subd=amyjosprague&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Extreme Ways&#8221; Moby</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Apr 2013 16:15:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy Jo Sprague</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now I&#8217;ve never been a fan of Moby this song is brilliant.  Genius.  And it also happens to be the theme song to the Bourne movies I&#8217;m obsessed with.  Enjoy lyrics: Extreme ways are back again extreme places I didn&#8217;t know I broke everything new again everything that I&#8217;d owned I threw it out the [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=amyjosprague.wordpress.com&#038;blog=13071154&#038;post=3723&#038;subd=amyjosprague&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ali Farka Toure &#8220;Ai Du&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Apr 2013 15:18:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy Jo Sprague</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After ten years, this is still my all-time FAVORITE SONG.  Best song ever&#8211;for writing, making love, you name it Filed under: My Poetry<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=amyjosprague.wordpress.com&#038;blog=13071154&#038;post=3720&#038;subd=amyjosprague&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Billy Bragg and Wilco &#8220;California Stars&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Apr 2013 14:26:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy Jo Sprague</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of my favorite songs, good for writing to or for one of those moments when you&#8217;re lost in thought Filed under: My Poetry<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=amyjosprague.wordpress.com&#038;blog=13071154&#038;post=3710&#038;subd=amyjosprague&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;medicine&#8221; Daughter</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Apr 2013 13:46:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy Jo Sprague</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I love this song, the lyrics get me every time&#8230;&#8221;pick it up, pick it all up&#8230;start all over again&#8230;.You gotta second chance you could go hom, escape it all it&#8217;s just your medicine&#8230;&#8221; Filed under: My Poetry<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=amyjosprague.wordpress.com&#038;blog=13071154&#038;post=3700&#038;subd=amyjosprague&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Virginia Woolf&#039;s &#039;moments of being&#039;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Apr 2013 12:57:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy Jo Sprague</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reblogged from Draft No. 4: The past only comes back when the present runs so smoothly that it is like the sliding surface of a deep river. Then one sees through the surface to the depths. In those moments I find one of my greatest satisfactions, not that I am thinking of the past; but [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=amyjosprague.wordpress.com&#038;blog=13071154&#038;post=3623&#038;subd=amyjosprague&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Catharsis and Literature</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Apr 2013 01:11:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy Jo Sprague</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wanted to share this chapter from one of my favorite writing books, Views From the Loft: A Portable Writer&#8217;s Workshop (edited by Daniel Slager) from The Loft Literary Center.  There&#8217;s a chapter called &#8220;Negotiating the Boundaries Between Catharsis and Literature&#8221; by Cheri Register.  It got me to thinking about my writing, working on the [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=amyjosprague.wordpress.com&#038;blog=13071154&#038;post=3601&#038;subd=amyjosprague&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Eh, Fuck It</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Apr 2013 20:51:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy Jo Sprague</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[another poem for Open Link Night at dVerse Poets Pub, come join in the fun! Eh, Fuck It I wanna sit you down and talk I wanna pull back the veil get you outside your head get you into the air through a curtain I see you sleeping through another day, another you yesterday you [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=amyjosprague.wordpress.com&#038;blog=13071154&#038;post=3543&#038;subd=amyjosprague&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Uneasy </title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Mar 2013 02:12:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy Jo Sprague</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reblogged from Writing and Living with Mental Illness: UNEASY   Even as a child, I knew something about myself was uneasy. There is no other word for that feeling. It was not just the bad stuff happening around me and to me. It was not just my father creeping into my bed at night. It [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=amyjosprague.wordpress.com&#038;blog=13071154&#038;post=3542&#038;subd=amyjosprague&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Yellow Tulip</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Mar 2013 23:21:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy Jo Sprague</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Join in the fun over at dVerse Poet&#8217;s Pub, this was a very interesting, and as Brian Miller put it, &#8220;ethereal&#8221; experience.  Here&#8217;s mine, rough draft: A YELLOW TULIP The lights streams through me that white light of winter on this warm ledge I am like a small sun my yellow head heavy, lolling as [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=amyjosprague.wordpress.com&#038;blog=13071154&#038;post=3538&#038;subd=amyjosprague&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dreams by Taken by Trees</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Mar 2013 16:05:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy Jo Sprague</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Filed under: music<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=amyjosprague.wordpress.com&#038;blog=13071154&#038;post=3530&#038;subd=amyjosprague&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Very Thought of You</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Mar 2013 20:56:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy Jo Sprague</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Poetry Prompt from dVerse Poets Pub &#8220;Poetics: InterActions.&#8221;  I chose to do Gretchen Leary&#8217;s music prompt.  Here goes.  (&#8220;The Very Thought of You by Billie Holiday, the first singer I fell in love with) THE VERY THOUGHT OF YOU The rain is pattering on the overhang black coffee in the air the smell of paint [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=amyjosprague.wordpress.com&#038;blog=13071154&#038;post=3521&#038;subd=amyjosprague&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Humming Birds (memoir)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Mar 2013 06:38:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy Jo Sprague</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Amy, you&#8217;re gonna get it,&#8221; Nikki tells me.  I&#8217;m hiding between the lilac bushes, Barbie&#8217;s head in my hand.  It&#8217;s our weekend at our father&#8217;s house. &#8220;What&#8217;d you use?&#8221; &#8220;Daddy John&#8217;s knife.&#8221;  I&#8217;m not afraid.  My father is harmless, even almost afraid of us.  It&#8217;s my stepfather I&#8217;m scared of. &#8220;I&#8217;m telling!&#8221; And off she [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=amyjosprague.wordpress.com&#038;blog=13071154&#038;post=3499&#038;subd=amyjosprague&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>FORGETTING</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Mar 2013 21:23:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy Jo Sprague</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[FORGETTING I watch my tennis shoes I had painted white as they step down the sidewalk, a Catholic school girl on her way to school in the late Spring heat, when I pass a tavern, the door held open by an ashcan and cigarettes and bleach stain the air. I peak into the darkness knowing [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=amyjosprague.wordpress.com&#038;blog=13071154&#038;post=3497&#038;subd=amyjosprague&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Dream in My Mind</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Mar 2013 20:36:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy Jo Sprague</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have this recurrent fantasy where I’m lost in a forest so deep it’s purple.  The grass is black, the moss creeping up the trees is black, the birds chatter like the noise in my head.  Hungry wolves are near, always near.  Then, there, there’s an opening of light not far off, finally.  I walk [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=amyjosprague.wordpress.com&#038;blog=13071154&#038;post=3494&#038;subd=amyjosprague&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Buds in the Gutter</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2013 21:24:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy Jo Sprague</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(this poem comes from a Yeat&#8217;s quote given to me by Mosk, thanks again my friend! This is what I came up with.  also, join us poets over at Open Link Night at dVerse Poets Pub! there&#8217;s an undercurrent to this city something about all the red lights and in a crowded line for welfare [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=amyjosprague.wordpress.com&#038;blog=13071154&#038;post=3491&#038;subd=amyjosprague&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bed of Winter</title>
		<link>http://amyjosprague.wordpress.com/2013/02/06/bed-of-winter/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2013 18:23:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy Jo Sprague</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s quiet out here in the snow the morning sky still a heavy blue. It&#8217;s peaceful here right now for a few moments. I think of the screaming I heard in my head last night, it doesn&#8217;t scare me anymore. It just adds to a sadness how I&#8217;m irrevocably changed and it makes me miss [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=amyjosprague.wordpress.com&#038;blog=13071154&#038;post=3472&#038;subd=amyjosprague&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Daddy&#8217;s Game</title>
		<link>http://amyjosprague.wordpress.com/2013/01/27/daddys-game-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jan 2013 04:17:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy Jo Sprague</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[published in FRiGG Magazine, Issue 35 2012 DADDY&#8217;S GAME I imagine you must&#8217;ve shut yourself off somehow&#8211;the way you&#8217;d eventually teach me to d0&#8211; before you entered my room like a king&#8217;s shadow. I hear the scrape of your jeans your hands hot and big like swings; I&#8217;m young so I love you.  I do [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=amyjosprague.wordpress.com&#038;blog=13071154&#038;post=3470&#038;subd=amyjosprague&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I&#8217;m About to Get Personal Whoa Shit</title>
		<link>http://amyjosprague.wordpress.com/2013/01/26/im-about-to-get-personal-whoa-shit/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jan 2013 03:08:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy Jo Sprague</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Getting Intimate with You Guys.  Thanks for listening/reading: Tonight I&#8217;m wondering about what love really is.  Did I have it?  Are there different kinds of love?  I&#8217;ve always avoided writing about love, because I have this outer shell that believes it&#8217;s ridiculous.  Hmmm.  I had someone.  A keeper.  I grew into loving him.  Is that [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=amyjosprague.wordpress.com&#038;blog=13071154&#038;post=3447&#038;subd=amyjosprague&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fragile Things</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2013 17:28:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy Jo Sprague</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[     At some point everything becomes clear. That doesn&#8217;t necessarily mean a good clear, but fact is preferred over fiction when you&#8217;re locked up in a mental ward. Again. And it&#8217;s snowing out&#8211;and worse&#8211;it&#8217;s New Year&#8217;s Eve and you&#8217;re thirtieth birthday is coming and you&#8217;re little girl must be looking for you. It&#8217;s all you [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=amyjosprague.wordpress.com&#038;blog=13071154&#038;post=3376&#038;subd=amyjosprague&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>An Amazing Poem by Heather Sawaya</title>
		<link>http://amyjosprague.wordpress.com/2013/01/24/an-amazing-poem-by-heather-sawaya/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2013 16:45:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy Jo Sprague</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So I had the very fortunate luck of coming across a poem&#8220;Pull Me Down&#8221; by blogger and poet Heather Sawaya over at Heather Sawaya Poetry.  It made me cry. A lot.  And it&#8217;s so insightful as to what it&#8217;s like for a caregiver/lover/best friend/helper of someone with so much suffering.   She&#8217;s an advocate for [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=amyjosprague.wordpress.com&#038;blog=13071154&#038;post=3378&#038;subd=amyjosprague&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Difficult Degrees</title>
		<link>http://amyjosprague.wordpress.com/2013/01/23/difficult-degrees-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jan 2013 16:30:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy Jo Sprague</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[published in Rose &#38; Thorn Journal How strong the wood is how heavy the water how fire burns you and saves you how we can suffocate in space. A leaf knows no direction and it cycles.   How I slip across a plank of moods how I gaze so far in my small mind how [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=amyjosprague.wordpress.com&#038;blog=13071154&#038;post=3367&#038;subd=amyjosprague&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Erica</title>
		<link>http://amyjosprague.wordpress.com/2013/01/23/erica/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jan 2013 06:17:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy Jo Sprague</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Come join in and share poetry at dVerse Poetry Pub, it&#8217;s Open Link Night&#8211;and sorry dVerse readers, this is the poem I meant to link to. (rough draft) I still picture you as sun-kissed in rayon skirting up the tree behind me one of us must have led but who knew how I followed you [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=amyjosprague.wordpress.com&#038;blog=13071154&#038;post=3351&#038;subd=amyjosprague&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Road</title>
		<link>http://amyjosprague.wordpress.com/2013/01/22/the-road/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jan 2013 20:14:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy Jo Sprague</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My mother never promised life would be easy.  There&#8217;s a picture of her on a boat with a red bandana on her head, the wind blowing back her hair and she&#8217;s laughing.  My early, early childhood was a beautiful thing.  Yellow light through my mother&#8217;s kitchen windows, listening to the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Cat [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=amyjosprague.wordpress.com&#038;blog=13071154&#038;post=3327&#038;subd=amyjosprague&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fears, Prayers, Robes</title>
		<link>http://amyjosprague.wordpress.com/2013/01/21/fears-prayers-robes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jan 2013 15:32:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy Jo Sprague</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fear has been consuming me the last few days.  Weeks.  Months.  It was camouflaged as daily worries, bills, being a good provider for my daughter&#8211;all of which I feel I am failing at.   I&#8217;m drowning in debt/fines.  Well I am not drowning, I&#8217;m just overwhelmed, waiting for this damn disability is killing me.  But anyway, [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=amyjosprague.wordpress.com&#038;blog=13071154&#038;post=3319&#038;subd=amyjosprague&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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