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isPermaLink="false">http://tuftsobserver.org/?p=6741</guid> <description><![CDATA[Calvin rolls a joint, ignoring the two girls building a sand-castle a few yards closer to the ocean. “Don’t you ever get bored here?” “Of course I do,” Michael responds. He burrows his feet into the warm sand. “But look at what’s around us: a beautiful beach, barbeques over fire pits, a boardwalk with roller [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://tuftsobserver.org/2013/04/the-line-in-the-sand/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> <media:thumbnail url="http://tuftsobserver.org/wp-content/uploads/et_temp/DSC_1143-1550204_90x90.jpg" width="90" height="90" /> </item> <item><title>Unsaid.</title><link>http://tuftsobserver.org/2013/04/unsaid/</link> <comments>http://tuftsobserver.org/2013/04/unsaid/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2013 13:00:22 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Jorge Monroy Palacio</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Poetry & Prose]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://tuftsobserver.org/?p=6755</guid> <description><![CDATA[Look down with careful eyes. And let me move you Slightly from side to side. Your petals are falling, I said And your smile is failing. Gather your up flaws and tie them With my cold ribbon. Tuck them away for goodness sake, tuck them Away under my Welcome mat. Not so welcoming, you thought, [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://tuftsobserver.org/2013/04/unsaid/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>if you’re looking for happiness you’ll find it between halo and herpes in the dictionary</title><link>http://tuftsobserver.org/2013/04/if-youre-looking-for-happiness-youll-find-it-between-halo-and-herpes-in-the-dictionary/</link> <comments>http://tuftsobserver.org/2013/04/if-youre-looking-for-happiness-youll-find-it-between-halo-and-herpes-in-the-dictionary/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2013 13:00:16 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Angie Lou</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Poetry & Prose]]></category><guid
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isPermaLink="false">http://tuftsobserver.org/?p=6731</guid> <description><![CDATA[I. I must be so off-base in these reveries. I’d have to enter a new life as you’ve imagined yours to be— an amnesiac continuation of great great aunt Bertha or someone shriveled— even to begin to know the beginning of me. Everyone knows there’s pain involved, but that’s just a word, a squawk, a [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://tuftsobserver.org/2013/04/the-spawning-coitus-and-laughter-of-andy-marathe/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Homebody</title><link>http://tuftsobserver.org/2013/04/homebody/</link> <comments>http://tuftsobserver.org/2013/04/homebody/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2013 13:00:03 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Laura Garges</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Poetry & Prose]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://tuftsobserver.org/?p=6726</guid> <description><![CDATA[A hodgepodge of trinkets scattered across the furniture handpicked by Mom and me when I thought it was The Most Important Thing in the World. The Most Important Place in the World. Nana would come knocking at the door, fresh laundry the scent of a pale, hospital gown blue. In the meantime I flip haphazardly [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://tuftsobserver.org/2013/04/homebody/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Centigrade</title><link>http://tuftsobserver.org/2013/04/centigrade/</link> <comments>http://tuftsobserver.org/2013/04/centigrade/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2013 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Jon Dutko</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Featured]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Poetry & Prose]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://tuftsobserver.org/?p=6718</guid> <description><![CDATA[“Let me tell you how I lost my pinky,” she tells me, so I shouldn’t be surprised when she spread-eagles her right hand out in front of my eyes and there’re only four digits quivering there. But I am. She looks up at me through that matted black, long hair and again through that fan [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://tuftsobserver.org/2013/04/centigrade/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> <media:thumbnail url="http://tuftsobserver.org/wp-content/uploads/et_temp/centigrade-324261_90x90.jpg" width="90" height="90" /> </item> <item><title>Mother of Beauty</title><link>http://tuftsobserver.org/2013/04/mother-of-beauty/</link> <comments>http://tuftsobserver.org/2013/04/mother-of-beauty/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 10 Apr 2013 02:39:51 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Flo Wen</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Poetry & Prose]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://tuftsobserver.org/?p=6708</guid> <description><![CDATA[“It’s just a phase of every life,” The adults like to say. When offspring of a common pair Begin to disobey. They’ll fight, they’ll feud, they’ll interfere, By Cain and Abel’s lead. For children – namely those of kin – Are hardly all agreed. Yet as the farmers grow to men And younger shepherds age, [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://tuftsobserver.org/2013/04/mother-of-beauty/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Pop Out</title><link>http://tuftsobserver.org/2013/04/pop-out/</link> <comments>http://tuftsobserver.org/2013/04/pop-out/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 10 Apr 2013 02:37:41 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Ellen Mayer</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Arts & Culture]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Featured]]></category><guid
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