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	<title>Direct Aid Iraq &#187; Poems</title>
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		<title>Interview with David Smith-Ferri on Direct Aid to Iraqis</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2008 17:50:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve just found a new audio archive online featuring David from DAI being interviewed on the show &#8220;Talk Nation&#8221; on his involvement with DAI and his work through Voices for Creative Nonviolence, and reading one of his poems, &#8220;If Irony Were Justice&#8221;, which tells the story of Mustafa, one of DAI&#8217;s first and ongoing patients [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I Am Here &#8212; Rasul in St. Louis</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 15:18:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[for Najlaa, Lori, and Kathy C.
I
Even before the bullet,
I was waiting.
Waiting for my window to open on a new world,
for the gray, warring streets to turn green
and Baghdad&#8217;s gun barrels to become songbirds.
Waiting for sidewalks to repair themselves,
for soccer balls to appear,
for schools to blossom like gardens with children,
with laughter,
with learning.
Waiting for our barren world [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Other Hands</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Amman, April, 2008 &#8211; for the DAI team
Haifa&#8217;a speaks
Time to think.
Suddenly, in the midst of war,
time to remember,
to sift and re-sift,
to see clearly.
For forty years, I lived by the sun&#8217;s light,
drinking it through the mouth of my pupils.
Who could distinguish between that light and my eyes?
Didn&#8217;t my eyes also glow,
weren&#8217;t they themselves also stars?

For forty [...]]]></description>
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