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<!--Generated by Squarespace Site Server v5.0.0 (http://www.squarespace.com/) on Sun, 23 Nov 2008 18:57:59 GMT--><rdf:RDF xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#" xmlns:rss="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/" xmlns:admin="http://webns.net/mvcb/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:cc="http://web.resource.org/cc/"><rss:channel rdf:about="http://tantmieux.squarespace.com/summer-poems/"><rss:title>tant mieux summer poems</rss:title><rss:link>http://tantmieux.squarespace.com/summer-poems/</rss:link><rss:description>poems relating to summer or written in the summer</rss:description><dc:language>en-US</dc:language><dc:date>2008-11-23T18:57:59Z</dc:date><admin:generatorAgent rdf:resource="http://www.squarespace.com/">Squarespace Site Server v5.0.0 (http://www.squarespace.com/)</admin:generatorAgent><rss:items><rdf:Seq><rdf:li rdf:resource="http://tantmieux.squarespace.com/summer-poems/2008/8/23/la-bete.html"/><rdf:li rdf:resource="http://tantmieux.squarespace.com/summer-poems/2008/6/3/may-28th.html"/><rdf:li rdf:resource="http://tantmieux.squarespace.com/summer-poems/downtown-530-am.html"/><rdf:li rdf:resource="http://tantmieux.squarespace.com/summer-poems/bravery.html"/><rdf:li rdf:resource="http://tantmieux.squarespace.com/summer-poems/where-you-are-not.html"/><rdf:li rdf:resource="http://tantmieux.squarespace.com/summer-poems/strange-religion.html"/><rdf:li rdf:resource="http://tantmieux.squarespace.com/summer-poems/two-words-subjection-providence.html"/><rdf:li rdf:resource="http://tantmieux.squarespace.com/summer-poems/solstice-sorscery-two-words-incantare.html"/><rdf:li rdf:resource="http://tantmieux.squarespace.com/summer-poems/soltice-promise.html"/><rdf:li rdf:resource="http://tantmieux.squarespace.com/summer-poems/progue-subis-zenaida.html"/><rdf:li rdf:resource="http://tantmieux.squarespace.com/summer-poems/eighty-eight-degrees-88.html"/><rdf:li rdf:resource="http://tantmieux.squarespace.com/summer-poems/2007/5/10/soul-recalled-two-words.html"/><rdf:li rdf:resource="http://tantmieux.squarespace.com/summer-poems/2007/5/10/ocean-close-two-words.html"/><rdf:li rdf:resource="http://tantmieux.squarespace.com/summer-poems/2007/5/10/nonexistent-empire.html"/><rdf:li rdf:resource="http://tantmieux.squarespace.com/summer-poems/2007/5/9/ocean-close-two-words.html"/></rdf:Seq></rss:items></rss:channel><rss:item rdf:about="http://tantmieux.squarespace.com/summer-poems/2008/8/23/la-bete.html"><rss:title>la bete</rss:title><rss:link>http://tantmieux.squarespace.com/summer-poems/2008/8/23/la-bete.html</rss:link><dc:creator>sadi ranson-polizzotti</dc:creator><dc:date>2008-08-23T17:11:34Z</dc:date><dc:subject></dc:subject><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p class="">She's a dark queen bitch.</p><p class="">Ready at the go with her razored pentacle disc, <br></p><p class="">waiting for the moment to make the throw;</p><p class="">she says, "I'll tear her to shreds."</p><p class="">Alert antennae poised, she tries to tune in the station, <br></p><p class="">yet receives only static - message unclear.</p>]]></content:encoded></rss:item><rss:item rdf:about="http://tantmieux.squarespace.com/summer-poems/2008/6/3/may-28th.html"><rss:title>may 28th -</rss:title><rss:link>http://tantmieux.squarespace.com/summer-poems/2008/6/3/may-28th.html</rss:link><dc:creator>sadi ranson-polizzotti</dc:creator><dc:date>2008-06-03T14:27:23Z</dc:date><dc:subject></dc:subject><content:encoded><![CDATA[It is the sweeping aura of the epileptic in the church&rsquo;s heavy twilight<br />the stained glass falling, patterns on the pews, prayers lifting <br />like so much smoke.<br />So she waits &ndash; waits while outside the noise of the city throbs, honks,]]></content:encoded></rss:item><rss:item rdf:about="http://tantmieux.squarespace.com/summer-poems/downtown-530-am.html"><rss:title>downtown, 5:30 a.m.</rss:title><rss:link>http://tantmieux.squarespace.com/summer-poems/downtown-530-am.html</rss:link><dc:creator>sadi ranson-polizzotti</dc:creator><dc:date>2007-09-12T12:08:10Z</dc:date><dc:subject></dc:subject><content:encoded><![CDATA[The taxi stops on the early-morning corner.<br />Just as I am inhaling a final desperate drag on a sometimes cigarette.<br />Such a drag not to finish, but taxis are rare this week.<br />Bless him for stopping; I could kiss the yellow door.]]></content:encoded></rss:item><rss:item rdf:about="http://tantmieux.squarespace.com/summer-poems/bravery.html"><rss:title>bravery</rss:title><rss:link>http://tantmieux.squarespace.com/summer-poems/bravery.html</rss:link><dc:creator>sadi ranson-polizzotti</dc:creator><dc:date>2007-08-26T16:48:53Z</dc:date><dc:subject></dc:subject><content:encoded><![CDATA[You call me Brave.<br />Brave because I say what must be said;<br />You do not see I fear it too.<br />We are not so different.]]></content:encoded></rss:item><rss:item rdf:about="http://tantmieux.squarespace.com/summer-poems/where-you-are-not.html"><rss:title>where you are not</rss:title><rss:link>http://tantmieux.squarespace.com/summer-poems/where-you-are-not.html</rss:link><dc:creator>sadi ranson-polizzotti</dc:creator><dc:date>2007-08-26T16:38:21Z</dc:date><dc:subject></dc:subject><content:encoded><![CDATA[12:30 exact and the carrillon sounds.<br />The great bells in their tower.<br />People, they hear, yet none see the pull.<br />Let by some angel we remain cloistered,<br />invisible, cool within the confines.]]></content:encoded></rss:item><rss:item rdf:about="http://tantmieux.squarespace.com/summer-poems/strange-religion.html"><rss:title>strange religion</rss:title><rss:link>http://tantmieux.squarespace.com/summer-poems/strange-religion.html</rss:link><dc:creator>sadi ranson-polizzotti</dc:creator><dc:date>2007-08-26T16:37:06Z</dc:date><dc:subject></dc:subject><content:encoded><![CDATA[Such things I would do.<br />Overcome this shyness in a moment<br />Show my true trust.<br />There is nothing I would not be,<br />to keep this love, dip, dive<br />a vector straight to you.]]></content:encoded></rss:item><rss:item rdf:about="http://tantmieux.squarespace.com/summer-poems/two-words-subjection-providence.html"><rss:title>two words | subjection, providence</rss:title><rss:link>http://tantmieux.squarespace.com/summer-poems/two-words-subjection-providence.html</rss:link><dc:creator>sadi ranson-polizzotti</dc:creator><dc:date>2007-07-24T01:12:06Z</dc:date><dc:subject></dc:subject><content:encoded><![CDATA[So it is the grand subjection<br />we fall soft sweet to circumstance<br />drawn by and to the sea-tide pull of the cream-thick July moon<br />I am raw-kneed from such prayers of the ascetic<br />the want of not wanting, <br />Love, i am weary of these pleas]]></content:encoded></rss:item><rss:item rdf:about="http://tantmieux.squarespace.com/summer-poems/solstice-sorscery-two-words-incantare.html"><rss:title>solstice sorscery | two words (incantare)</rss:title><rss:link>http://tantmieux.squarespace.com/summer-poems/solstice-sorscery-two-words-incantare.html</rss:link><dc:creator>sadi ranson-polizzotti</dc:creator><dc:date>2007-06-26T14:26:41Z</dc:date><dc:subject></dc:subject><content:encoded><![CDATA[Seven knots red thread Kabbalah &amp; Celtic incantare<br />this day of solstice enchantments, <br />words soft any hymn fall honeyed from your lips,<br />my voice it chants dulcet each syllable of your name &ndash;<br />Each drops to the quiet cemetery&rsquo;s mown grass]]></content:encoded></rss:item><rss:item rdf:about="http://tantmieux.squarespace.com/summer-poems/soltice-promise.html"><rss:title>soltice promise</rss:title><rss:link>http://tantmieux.squarespace.com/summer-poems/soltice-promise.html</rss:link><dc:creator>sadi ranson-polizzotti</dc:creator><dc:date>2007-06-24T00:31:30Z</dc:date><dc:subject></dc:subject><content:encoded><![CDATA[The queen must have her way<br />cork the cage with sweetness<br />and she gnaw her way through.<br />That constant angry buzzing &ndash;<br />you hear a half mile echo &ndash;]]></content:encoded></rss:item><rss:item rdf:about="http://tantmieux.squarespace.com/summer-poems/progue-subis-zenaida.html"><rss:title>progue subis | zenaida</rss:title><rss:link>http://tantmieux.squarespace.com/summer-poems/progue-subis-zenaida.html</rss:link><dc:creator>sadi ranson-polizzotti</dc:creator><dc:date>2007-06-18T13:22:27Z</dc:date><dc:subject></dc:subject><content:encoded><![CDATA[You, you glide in dark, ribboned circles<br />your tail an elegant ribboned V<br />...as you move closer to me ~<br />I hear you coming &ndash;<br />those rich, low guttaral moans.]]></content:encoded></rss:item><rss:item rdf:about="http://tantmieux.squarespace.com/summer-poems/eighty-eight-degrees-88.html"><rss:title>eighty-eight degrees | 88</rss:title><rss:link>http://tantmieux.squarespace.com/summer-poems/eighty-eight-degrees-88.html</rss:link><dc:creator>sadi ranson-polizzotti</dc:creator><dc:date>2007-06-18T12:48:17Z</dc:date><dc:subject></dc:subject><content:encoded><![CDATA[Eighty-eight degrees, you &ndash; me<br />an orchard where we kiss, cousin<br />my summer slip loosed, hip-hiked your left-hand<br />moving in smooth circles as you<br />trace each grouping of<br />]]></content:encoded></rss:item><rss:item rdf:about="http://tantmieux.squarespace.com/summer-poems/2007/5/10/soul-recalled-two-words.html"><rss:title>soul recalled | two words</rss:title><rss:link>http://tantmieux.squarespace.com/summer-poems/2007/5/10/soul-recalled-two-words.html</rss:link><dc:creator>sadi ranson-polizzotti</dc:creator><dc:date>2007-05-10T14:31:51Z</dc:date><dc:subject></dc:subject><content:encoded><![CDATA[So are we, am I, at some crossroads?<br />Should I be grappling with these issues of the soul<br />when truthfully all I can think is<br />more now again<br />Yes, I recall all of those thorny ethical issues,]]></content:encoded></rss:item><rss:item rdf:about="http://tantmieux.squarespace.com/summer-poems/2007/5/10/ocean-close-two-words.html"><rss:title>ocean close | two words</rss:title><rss:link>http://tantmieux.squarespace.com/summer-poems/2007/5/10/ocean-close-two-words.html</rss:link><dc:creator>sadi ranson-polizzotti</dc:creator><dc:date>2007-05-10T14:27:49Z</dc:date><dc:subject></dc:subject><content:encoded><![CDATA[I keep to the broadstrokes.<br />The outline of the map now places me parallel to the Atlantic,<br />That mutable palate of blue gray green that connects my here to there.<br />By now my youth, my country, my rough chanel &ndash; my Europe.<br />I see that tide every day]]></content:encoded></rss:item><rss:item rdf:about="http://tantmieux.squarespace.com/summer-poems/2007/5/10/nonexistent-empire.html"><rss:title>nonexistent empire</rss:title><rss:link>http://tantmieux.squarespace.com/summer-poems/2007/5/10/nonexistent-empire.html</rss:link><dc:creator>sadi ranson-polizzotti</dc:creator><dc:date>2007-05-10T14:24:42Z</dc:date><dc:subject></dc:subject><content:encoded><![CDATA[That is you. A simple yes or no question you simply will not answer.<br />Is it fear that I will hurt? Take my love away?<br />Or is it more that yours in this way was nonexistent from the start &ndash;<br />and empire I wove of whole cloth: no, thin air.]]></content:encoded></rss:item><rss:item rdf:about="http://tantmieux.squarespace.com/summer-poems/2007/5/9/ocean-close-two-words.html"><rss:title>ocean close | two words</rss:title><rss:link>http://tantmieux.squarespace.com/summer-poems/2007/5/9/ocean-close-two-words.html</rss:link><dc:creator>sadi ranson-polizzotti</dc:creator><dc:date>2007-05-10T01:03:35Z</dc:date><dc:subject></dc:subject><content:encoded><![CDATA[I keep to the broadstrokes.<br />The outline of the map now places me parallel to the Atlantic,<br />That mutable palate of blue gray green that connects my here to there.<br />By now my youth, my country, my rough chanel &ndash; my Europe.<br />I see that tide every day]]></content:encoded></rss:item></rdf:RDF>