<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[RSS Feed]]></title><description><![CDATA[RSS Feed]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com</link><image><url>http://direct.ecency.com/logo512.png</url><title>RSS Feed</title><link>http://direct.ecency.com</link></image><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2026 14:08:36 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="http://direct.ecency.com/@practical/rss" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[Voyage of the Sable Venus and Other Poems]]></title><description><![CDATA[“The black side of my family owned slaves”: That’s a key line in the first and the last of the poems in Lewis’s varied first collection, whose poems short and long braid her own family history into a wider]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/poems/@practical/voyage-of-the-sable-venus-and-other-poems</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/poems/@practical/voyage-of-the-sable-venus-and-other-poems</guid><category><![CDATA[poems]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[practical]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 26 Jan 2018 02:17:33 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/4bEjbgCbFMvB4f4hon9Bq4ejuv7qr5CMKA9UKAJKdzVvssyBopZwiHr1VEEuq7aur4qdn1SfcvNzDLGF3zJGBY9mDwDwnBF41QQuTZfTXDxsxrXyLv4z6xaprGtqzpiH3H7umiAEHkZrvASE6tASGKBJz7wrXL33fZxfkreiYxqe9ejYuu?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Enkindled Spring]]></title><description><![CDATA[This spring as it comes bursts up in bonfires green, Wild puffing of emerald trees, and flame-filled bushes, Thorn-blossom lifting in wreaths of smoke between Where the wood fumes up and the watery, flickering]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/life/@practical/the-enkindled-spring</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/life/@practical/the-enkindled-spring</guid><category><![CDATA[life]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[practical]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jan 2018 10:42:15 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/9vWp6aU4y8kxwicNFQw4XxTD9mT69qFwXkG9dLrJ3zSLSvBap1USQ5TebRmpQWmYjhfUomK6uBScZ4XUxzeK8hkHSDp9tojJTc6CSHaM1uWzR68V5hyRUdWe6fSGXj9m7ng7vMp3nJS5gi77U?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[O were my love yon Lilac fair]]></title><description><![CDATA[O were my love yon Lilac fair, Wi’ purple blossoms to the Spring, And I, a bird to shelter there, When wearied on my little wing! How I wad mourn when it was torn By Autumn wild, and Winter rude! But I]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/love/@practical/o-were-my-love-yon-lilac-fair</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/love/@practical/o-were-my-love-yon-lilac-fair</guid><category><![CDATA[love]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[practical]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jan 2018 10:33:03 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/hgjbkodzNPCULHRoNbU4RscyUYe1SS7VppV2LTiHzFiXwB2BPqQqZVNbHtBvp6fY6bkjLXXmHSBPwBeugJoGhz9XtJ?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ode to Spring]]></title><description><![CDATA[I can only find words for. And sometimes I can’t. Here are these flowers that stand for. I stand here on the sidewalk. I can’t stand it, but yes of course I understand it. Everything has to have meaning.]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/ode/@practical/ode-to-spring</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/ode/@practical/ode-to-spring</guid><category><![CDATA[ode]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[practical]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jan 2018 10:26:51 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spark of the Sky Stag’s Great Heart]]></title><description><![CDATA[strung from a thought arrived through the keyhole grasping the hand of another I will begin with my mouth then live with antlers remembering the light inside, always to breathe this unforgetting and his]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/spark/@practical/spark-of-the-sky-stag-s-great-heart</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/spark/@practical/spark-of-the-sky-stag-s-great-heart</guid><category><![CDATA[spark]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[practical]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jan 2018 10:02:15 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do Not Speak of the Dead]]></title><description><![CDATA[“They tried to bury us. They didn’t know we were seeds.” —Mexican Proverb I was born among the bodies. I was hurried forward, and sealed a thin life for myself. 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How do I open this file.” “Double-click on it.” click......................................................click “That didn’t do anything.”]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/answer/@practical/answer-my-riddle</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/answer/@practical/answer-my-riddle</guid><category><![CDATA[answer]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[practical]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jan 2018 16:21:42 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/7b4bio5hobgtFBgQBzPPQ1yu9sCm4yZNTxKYd4RT9J3YaQy1VCv6VxZLxrcQffALrmdgMScBpX1EBa1nxvd5p8yJqMdtCHw9G1CTyQFsY7L3niVE2FyUxhhmv4XgyF1mf1kmZLe8Ki7sshkWHXx9BbnWSTVB?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[John Williams has been nominated for an Oscar 51 times, averaging one nomination a year since his first in 1967]]></title><description><![CDATA[There are some names that just synonymous with the Academy Awards. 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Now when the barren twilight closes its circle Will fear the yearning]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/last/@practical/the-last-fisherman</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/last/@practical/the-last-fisherman</guid><category><![CDATA[last]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[practical]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jan 2018 15:43:54 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/Zskj9C56UondJxcjVaienfhVaNb7LJVWG6e787ga6Fqy5uMpRJjcNx2oTPkHtuHZobQVy2QimjwNWRzR7STKVAeEoe4nh7ZtmEz6xiAz2bpeh2wZ9nfx?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item></channel></rss>