ALAS, POOR YORICK: AN EXERCISE IN IDENTITY POLITICS AND SELF-PORTRAITURE

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AN IMPROMPTU STUDY OF INDIGENOUS CLOUDS: THEIR VARIOUS FORMS, DEMEANORS, AND SONGS

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IMAGES FROM THE WYOMING TERRITORIAL PRISON MUSEUM AND OLD WEST PARK IN LARAMIE, WYOMING

Butch Cassidy’s Territorial Prison Mug Shot

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WORD CLOUD

I made a Word Cloud out of one of my newish prose poems over at Wordle. I sort of love the depaysment of seeing all of the unraveled words floating about in the ether like that. You can see it here: Prose Poem Word Cloud Go make your own!

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RECEPTION

JM: Who need cable? See, we wrap up rabbit ear in tinfoil! Such stupid spend money for cable. How much you spend for cable every month? AH: [Unwilling to go down this particular road.] Um . . . why do you need to know that? JM: What you make Ajapa Face for? I have to [...]

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ON SNOWY RANGE ROAD

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UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING INSECT MUSEUM = A LITTLE SLICE OF HEAVEN!

I remember I used to beg my dad to take me through the Agriculture Building when he picked me up from the University Lab School I attended — it was on the way to the parking lot where he sometimes parked — because I loved, loved, loved to look at the insect mounts in the [...]

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THE LARAMIE RIVER

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CONVERSATIONS WITH MY JAPANESE MOTHER (DRIVING EDITION)

JM: That’s red light! You have to stop! AH: Yeah. JM: You better stop! AH: I’m stopping! JM: Oh! (Clutching stomach.) You stop so hard. Is gut shaker! How I’m going to survive it? Wachh! Look at that. Weather get nice and all kid come out. Like ants! You know, you have such Brat Cat, [...]

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