<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5501299807240717406</id><updated>2012-01-27T20:19:52.794-05:00</updated><category term='Toronto'/><category term='Parkinson&apos;s'/><category term='Sonnets: Actualities'/><category term='ballad'/><category term='women and men'/><category term='pedestrians'/><category term='Earth songs'/><category term='death'/><category term='Sonnets: Realities'/><category term='Easter'/><category term='beauty'/><category term='race'/><category term='traffic'/><category term='police'/><category term='Andromache'/><category term='hospitals'/><category term='the sea'/><title type='text'>Story Ward</title><subtitle type='html'>Poetry by Ward McBurney.</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://storyward.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5501299807240717406/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://storyward.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Ward Brent McBurney</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>5</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5501299807240717406.post-2048142810782845749</id><published>2012-01-27T20:19:00.002-05:00</published><updated>2012-01-27T20:19:52.803-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Parkinson&apos;s'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Sonnets: Realities'/><title type='text'>How to live</title><summary type='text'>
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As Christ is my Redeemer, originally uploaded by Ward108.
I often wonder, how do people without
Parkinson’s disease get by? Truly, I do.
How to function in a world of shouts
and collars, of real grief and sorrow, true

things </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://storyward.blogspot.com/feeds/2048142810782845749/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5501299807240717406&amp;postID=2048142810782845749' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5501299807240717406/posts/default/2048142810782845749'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5501299807240717406/posts/default/2048142810782845749'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://storyward.blogspot.com/2012/01/how-to-live.html' title='How to live'/><author><name>Ward Brent McBurney</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5501299807240717406.post-852496244486323987</id><published>2012-01-27T10:24:00.002-05:00</published><updated>2012-01-27T10:25:19.028-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ballad'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='women and men'/><title type='text'>Here and there</title><summary type='text'>
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Tea, originally uploaded by Ward108.
There is never enough time
to honour every thing as it should
be honoured, and we honour
only in time. There is never

enough presence that can be
too much here. And there is never enough
</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://storyward.blogspot.com/feeds/852496244486323987/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5501299807240717406&amp;postID=852496244486323987' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5501299807240717406/posts/default/852496244486323987'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5501299807240717406/posts/default/852496244486323987'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://storyward.blogspot.com/2012/01/here-and-there.html' title='Here and there'/><author><name>Ward Brent McBurney</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5501299807240717406.post-6190004338460781339</id><published>2012-01-24T15:50:00.026-05:00</published><updated>2012-01-25T00:38:06.495-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='hospitals'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Toronto'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='traffic'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Parkinson&apos;s'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='death'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='pedestrians'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='race'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='police'/><title type='text'>Heart trouble</title><summary type='text'>
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Outside Saving Grace, originally uploaded by Ward108.
I went to the emergency department of a major downtown Toronto hospital recently. It was past midnight and I called one friend, to make sure somebody knew where I was, but </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://storyward.blogspot.com/feeds/6190004338460781339/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5501299807240717406&amp;postID=6190004338460781339' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5501299807240717406/posts/default/6190004338460781339'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5501299807240717406/posts/default/6190004338460781339'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://storyward.blogspot.com/2012/01/heart-trouble.html' title='Heart trouble'/><author><name>Ward Brent McBurney</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5501299807240717406.post-8022325307445743947</id><published>2012-01-23T09:57:00.002-05:00</published><updated>2012-01-23T09:59:41.468-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Earth songs'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Andromache'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Parkinson&apos;s'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='beauty'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='the sea'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Sonnets: Actualities'/><title type='text'>Sonic Andromache</title><summary type='text'>
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Do not disturb, originally uploaded by Ward108.
Where is here? And what I am in? This all-
or-nothing mind. This all-or-nothing body.
This whole life, the haul of centuries calling
through mist of what was mind to what she

</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://storyward.blogspot.com/feeds/8022325307445743947/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5501299807240717406&amp;postID=8022325307445743947' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5501299807240717406/posts/default/8022325307445743947'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5501299807240717406/posts/default/8022325307445743947'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://storyward.blogspot.com/2012/01/sonic-andromache.html' title='Sonic Andromache'/><author><name>Ward Brent McBurney</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5501299807240717406.post-256067740114333365</id><published>2012-01-18T13:53:00.007-05:00</published><updated>2012-01-18T15:08:15.254-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='women and men'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Sonnets: Realities'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Easter'/><title type='text'>In flight</title><summary type='text'>
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In flight, originally uploaded by Ward108.
The first time I ever saw possession –real heat, that terrible thing, thatmonsters men and women to each other –
 was my-then-best friend’s two loose fingersslowly stroking the downy </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://storyward.blogspot.com/feeds/256067740114333365/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5501299807240717406&amp;postID=256067740114333365' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5501299807240717406/posts/default/256067740114333365'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5501299807240717406/posts/default/256067740114333365'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://storyward.blogspot.com/2012/01/in-flight.html' title='In flight'/><author><name>Ward Brent McBurney</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>
