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	<title>Itchy Fingers, Scratchy Words - Poetry and Prose by Erik Holmberg</title>
	<link>http://itchyscratchy.erikholmberg.com</link>
	<description>Erik Holmberg is a commercial photographer based in Charleston, South Carolina, who specializes in advertising, lifestyle, portrait, and editorial photography.</description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s Not So Absurd</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tell me why the autumn air
Tries to pin me down
Get in my bones
And make me
As cold as it
Doesn’t it know
That I’ve got a love
She burns deep from my marrow
You can’t stop that fire
Once it’s lit
Better learn quick
The way she warms me
Is a secret
That’s never been told
With spoken words
Her arms wrap me
Like they were made to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://itchyscratchy.erikholmberg.com/articles/its-not-so-absurd/</link>
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		<title>Just Be</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My success defined
As heartbeat fast or slow
Lower my ear to your chest
It’s not the only way to know
Exquisite opposing forces
Thinnest wire on balanced knee
Hold on neither loose nor tight
The compass pointing to “just be”
Tear drops and a nervous swell
Which one is seen on the outside
Little mental natural disasters
Can be survived when we are beside
Just let [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://itchyscratchy.erikholmberg.com/articles/just-be/</link>
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		<title>Catching</title>
		<description><![CDATA[breath after moments
looks from eyes
feelings on you
now I know it’s true
meaning
fall if you may
fall if you might
fall your hardest I say!
the catch is well underway
leaning
forward after anticipation
backward from embrace
into on kiss
now there’s no stopping this
cleaning
past from the mind
past from passing
past is so behind
break the button labeled rewind
arms open for the catch
the most beautiful girl
my dame, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://itchyscratchy.erikholmberg.com/articles/catching/</link>
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		<title>The First Sight Ever Seen</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This evening
Playing the part of past
Will be a lake
Depthless and vast
Calm and dark
The surface, glassy smooth
Ripples only form
If you step back in and move
I sit alone
Gently on dewy hillside
A view of it all
Spot cleared for my equal beside
In the role of future
The up and coming brilliant sky
Infinitely wide
And twice as big measured high
One can’t predict
How [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://itchyscratchy.erikholmberg.com/articles/the-first-sight-ever-seen/</link>
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		<title>The Beautiful Struggle</title>
		<description><![CDATA[binds, bars, and breaks
become
bows, bridges, and bandages
making me think
i can handle this
pain is placed neatly on shelves
of a safe with no combination
in the back of the basement
close the door for
forever plus more
we take the stairs to
an escalator or two
then the elevator up a few
floors above heaven
what a view
air so crisp
it’s like it’s brand new
and now [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://itchyscratchy.erikholmberg.com/articles/the-beautiful-struggle/</link>
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		<title>The Lighthouse</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You are so weary
Rowing for what seems like years
In your little wooden boat with its two wooden oars
So many storms and rough seas encountered
Your bow raises up and pierces through
Beating sun and chilling moon
You row and row with an iron will
A breath and a dream inside you
You reach a point of tire and yank back [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://itchyscratchy.erikholmberg.com/articles/the-lighthouse/</link>
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		<title>There&#8217;s No Place</title>
		<description><![CDATA[i’ll give you some hours of my days
to shorten the time until I see you again
to lengthen your time with loved ones
go back gently to the place you come from
there’s no place like home
remember gently the place we come from
there’s no place like the place where love is born
your laughter is the soundtrack
to a movie [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://itchyscratchy.erikholmberg.com/articles/theres-no-place/</link>
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		<title>This is Autumn and you will Fall</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The trees assume a melancholic stance, staring to the ground at their lost leaves like the new kid in school between class bells.
Darkness falls early and slow, the sleepy eyes of a baby that I can’t help but wonder who the mother is.
This is Autumn and no matter the hold you have on your emotional [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://itchyscratchy.erikholmberg.com/articles/this-is-autumn-and-you-will-fall/</link>
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		<title>These Itchy Fingers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Will soon produce words that scratch.
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		<link>http://itchyscratchy.erikholmberg.com/articles/these-itchy-fingers/</link>
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