Utah
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The Crustacean Period: A Journey Through My 1990s
Long ago, in my crustacean period, I worked at Chevron. Gorging on beef jerky and graveyard radio. This was the mid 1990s. The world, of course, was very different. I rode the bus to work and read Greek philosophy. Also German was in my ear. I was hungry. Here is a reading about that time.… Read more
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A Very Thin Crack
A surreal-absurd prose poem from my manuscript Dream Dust. Written while visiting southern Utah. This is called “The Narrows.” Read more
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CHUMS
“It was The Great Purge of the 90s. “Religion faced the greatest threat from three groups: feminists, homosexuals and intellectuals,” said Boyd K. Packer, a General Authority, in a speech in 1993. In the fall of 1993, six Mormon writers were rebuked for their feminist intellectual leanings. They became the “September Six.” We felt the… Read more
Never Mind the Beasts 