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	<description>a blog by Rick Belden, author of Iron Man Family Outing</description>
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		<title>Around the world with Iron Man Family Outing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I received an amazing and most unexpected message a few days ago from one of my readers and allies in California. Bret Stephenson has been a counselor of at-risk and high-risk adolescents for twenty-five years, with a particular focus on &#8230; <a href="http://rickbelden.com/blog/2013/06/02/around-the-world-with-iron-man-family-outing/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://rickbelden.com/blog/2013/06/02/around-the-world-with-iron-man-family-outing/</link>
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		<title>fountain</title>
		<description><![CDATA[sweet scent swirling swimming she surprised surrendered allowed me inside her sacred space where I recollected remembered reconnected myself and now I don't want to wash the taste of her fountain from my skin. (PDF version)]]></description>
		<link>http://rickbelden.com/blog/2013/05/16/fountain/</link>
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		<title>Mother&#8217;s Day and the Mother Wound</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Anyone else feel like an outcast on Mother&#8217;s Day? It&#8217;s not a festival of sunshine and flowers for all of us. Mother&#8217;s Day can be a minefield of emotional triggers for those who grew up in dysfunctional, abusive, or neglectful &#8230; <a href="http://rickbelden.com/blog/2013/05/12/mothers-day-and-the-mother-wound/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://rickbelden.com/blog/2013/05/12/mothers-day-and-the-mother-wound/</link>
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		<title>Poem of the Issue – Austin Chronicle 05/10/13</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My poem &#8220;losing self&#8221; is the featured &#8220;Poem of the Issue&#8221; in this week’s edition of The Austin Chronicle.]]></description>
		<link>http://rickbelden.com/blog/2013/05/10/poem-of-the-issue-austin-chronicle-051013/</link>
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		<title>losing self</title>
		<description><![CDATA[insane ringing in my bones I fell out of sync with the bees I stared down into a hole in myself a hollow space age mistake disconnected from the heart outward a lost butterfly floating in a heat mirage. (PDF &#8230; <a href="http://rickbelden.com/blog/2013/05/05/losing-self/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://rickbelden.com/blog/2013/05/05/losing-self/</link>
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		<title>Rediscovering the original wound</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;What you wanted, you still want.&#8221; ~ Robert Bly 1. Wound I&#8217;ve been blessed during the last couple of months with another very fruitful phase of deep and intense creativity, soon to end when I return to the world of &#8230; <a href="http://rickbelden.com/blog/2013/04/28/rediscovering-the-original-wound/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://rickbelden.com/blog/2013/04/28/rediscovering-the-original-wound/</link>
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		<title>shelter</title>
		<description><![CDATA[savage depression take me in shelter me from what I cannot fix protect me from what I cannot feel lest it shatter my heart into slivers and shards. dearest friend who is always there for me the only one who &#8230; <a href="http://rickbelden.com/blog/2013/04/25/shelter/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://rickbelden.com/blog/2013/04/25/shelter/</link>
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		<title>hold me raw</title>
		<description><![CDATA[sometimes I feel like I'm gonna go stark raving spontaneously-disintegrating-into-a- cloud-of-randomly-circulating-electrons batshit crazy mad if I can't roll over in bed into the arms of someone who'll love me and hold me when I feel raw scared insecure uncertain lonely &#8230; <a href="http://rickbelden.com/blog/2013/04/20/hold-me-raw/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://rickbelden.com/blog/2013/04/20/hold-me-raw/</link>
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		<title>seeking balance</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The last few days have been pretty hairy for me so this one seems like an appropriately timely choice. Kind of a little southwestern US region / Arizona / New Mexico vibe going on here, with something reminiscent of a &#8230; <a href="http://rickbelden.com/blog/2013/04/19/seeking-balance/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://rickbelden.com/blog/2013/04/19/seeking-balance/</link>
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		<title>Painful projections</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last December, I published a post titled &#8220;A male survivor&#8217;s perspective on &#8216;rape culture&#8217;&#8221; in which I wrote about attending my first group for male survivors of childhood sexual abuse at the local rape crisis center. I recalled that as &#8230; <a href="http://rickbelden.com/blog/2013/04/14/painful-projections/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://rickbelden.com/blog/2013/04/14/painful-projections/</link>
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		<title>new element</title>
		<description><![CDATA[new element subatomic love particle cosmic elucidator translucent crucifix transfixion illuminator. so many years broken and torn now I am ripe now I am born.]]></description>
		<link>http://rickbelden.com/blog/2013/04/09/new-element/</link>
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		<title>blaze</title>
		<description><![CDATA[purple firestorm eat me up burn me down into the ground reduce me black in ash and dirt return me back from where I came and make me solid again in flame.]]></description>
		<link>http://rickbelden.com/blog/2013/04/08/blaze/</link>
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		<title>celestial impact</title>
		<description><![CDATA[celestial impact alien object born of the stars smashing to earth easing my mind.]]></description>
		<link>http://rickbelden.com/blog/2013/04/07/celestial-impact/</link>
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		<title>julie</title>
		<description><![CDATA[another ex-girlfriend I never had not even a memory only a name another blank page in another empty book.]]></description>
		<link>http://rickbelden.com/blog/2013/04/06/julie/</link>
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		<title>A thank you to my allies</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A little background on this post: I originally wrote this entry on 02/28/13, but was feeling a bit too vulnerable then to share it. I read through it again this morning for the first time in over a month and &#8230; <a href="http://rickbelden.com/blog/2013/04/05/a-thank-you-to-my-allies/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://rickbelden.com/blog/2013/04/05/a-thank-you-to-my-allies/</link>
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		<title>bursting open</title>
		<description><![CDATA[bursting open electric butterfly fly while you can before the cage swallows you up again.]]></description>
		<link>http://rickbelden.com/blog/2013/04/04/bursting-open/</link>
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		<title>desperation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[desperation I grasp I plead I try to convince. I need to present my evidence.]]></description>
		<link>http://rickbelden.com/blog/2013/04/02/desperation/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;easter&#8221; featured on Beyond Meds website</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My video reading of the poem &#8220;easter&#8221; from my book Iron Man Family Outing is featured today on the Beyond Meds website, accompanied by a short written reflection on the poem and its role in my developing view of my &#8230; <a href="http://rickbelden.com/blog/2013/03/31/easter-featured-on-beyond-meds-website/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://rickbelden.com/blog/2013/03/31/easter-featured-on-beyond-meds-website/</link>
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		<title>chaos</title>
		<description><![CDATA[door slammed shut on memories of fear I ran far away but escape came too late for the child.]]></description>
		<link>http://rickbelden.com/blog/2013/03/28/chaos/</link>
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		<title>anxiety</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I hAvEN&#8217;T posTEd ANY of mY owN ArT hErE oN ThE blog IN AlmosT Two YEArs. I AlwAYs fINd mYsElf wANTINg To wrITE somEThINg To go wITh ThE ArT buT gENErAllY doN&#8217;T kNow whAT To sAY, so ThEN I ENd &#8230; <a href="http://rickbelden.com/blog/2013/03/26/anxiety/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://rickbelden.com/blog/2013/03/26/anxiety/</link>
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