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		<title>A GHOST IN THE FOREST</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Aug 2010 13:01:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The ghost in the forest hypothesis states that if you remove an organism from an ecosystem, it will affect other organisms that relied on that organism for their survival. The area where this organism once inhabited will act as a dead zone. The diversity in species will be greatly reduced. &#8211;Dr. Rose-Marie Muzikastates I woke [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theblackflood.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13905590&amp;post=88&amp;subd=theblackflood&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Burning Flood</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;April 22, 2010 &#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;Earth Day USA Flames leap from an oil rig in the gulf coast. Another eleven workers dead. Scattered reports filled with those lies called statistics. But this time something is different. We are being strangled. An ugly snake comes closer closer spewing slimy debris. Trapping us in coils of filth. Day after [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theblackflood.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13905590&amp;post=85&amp;subd=theblackflood&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Squall Lines</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The oil spill insinuates itself into everything, even my mother&#8217;s hospital room, when the nurse, watching the news as she hangs another bag of saline to float the antibiotics, says: My husband&#8217;s a crabber. He&#8217;s gonna have to find himself another job. She&#8217;s young &#38; I wonder if she understands. It’s not just some job [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theblackflood.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13905590&amp;post=80&amp;subd=theblackflood&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>spoils</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Jul 2010 15:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Folse</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[slap slap slap of the soup sliding its slimy self onto shore a seaweed salad over-dosed in balsamic shiny at the surface slick-toxic lurks under neath gasps and glugs as pools plugged with gunk another live one sunk the dirge-pipe of a gull lulls us all senseless &#8211; Kat Mortenson Filed under: Poetry<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theblackflood.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13905590&amp;post=69&amp;subd=theblackflood&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Slick</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some birds’ beauty comes from iridescence – the play of light revealing changing colours buried in black feathers. Don’t be misled. Any bird that swims the rainbows of this congealed sea will find not beauty but death. &#8211; Juliet Wilson Filed under: Poetry<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theblackflood.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13905590&amp;post=67&amp;subd=theblackflood&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Gulf Coast Flyways</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Point on the map to nineteen eighty-eight when I sat on the roof of your Thunderbird parked aside a rice field somewhere along the backside of Galveston Bay. Clap your hands, you said, and my palms wreaked havoc along that Gulf Coast flyway as a white flurry of water birds shot skyward against green grain [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theblackflood.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13905590&amp;post=60&amp;subd=theblackflood&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>a british petroleum found pantoum</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[look &#160; &#160; it’s obvious to everybody that they didn’t have a plan in the scenarios &#160; &#160; fish and birds escape serious harm beaches remain pristine water quality is only a temporary problem in the scenarios &#160; &#160; fish and birds escape serious harm we are greatly disappointed that oil has made landfall water [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theblackflood.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13905590&amp;post=54&amp;subd=theblackflood&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>For Our Sins</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jun 2010 15:00:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the hills of West Virginia we thirst for living water, so we go on Sundays at morning and at night, and on Wednesdays, too, we go, looking for a well that isn&#8217;t poisoned by the runoff of our sins. Someone said the Gulf where fishes used to leap is sacred, dead sea water, but [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theblackflood.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13905590&amp;post=50&amp;subd=theblackflood&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dead Zones</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Went down to the ship, set keel to tempest, forth on the oily sea, and swung our oars in the maze of pipelines. Searing winds from the south and our bodies heavy with weeping, but we pulled fast over Gulf to day’s end. And there, where moon’s eye sees nowhere, platform corpses darken the water. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theblackflood.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13905590&amp;post=46&amp;subd=theblackflood&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Oilfield Workers Wife</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jun 2010 13:50:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the hour that claimed her husband’s life she was walking down the aisles at Rouse’s gathering ingredients for etouffee’ - onion, bell pepper, celery - the holy trinity of sustenance. Where was the holy trinity of the scripture in the moments before her husband disintegrated? &#8211; Charlotte Ash Filed under: Other Creative Outbursts<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theblackflood.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13905590&amp;post=42&amp;subd=theblackflood&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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