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  • A Long Haiku

    August 5, 2008

    Long words have ruined The best lines of my haiku. Sesquipedalian. –Rob Shore

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  • Still, makes for pretty pictures [by Rob Shore]

    August 5, 2008

    Whatever it may lack in prominence, Mongolia makes up for in scale. The encroachment of modernity on traditional societies is an admittedly tired subject.  Still, makes for pretty pictures.  As do the…

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  • The Other Side [by Rob Shore]

    August 5, 2008

        "Your people like chicken, right?" I did not know the hunched, wrinkled figure before me.  This was the first line of our first conversation.  I liked it.  I told him that we—Americans—did. …

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  • Spaceman Love [by Luke Meinzen]

    August 4, 2008

    There are tables covered with ranks of books near the entrance to the market in the industrial city of Darkhan, 120 km south of Russia in northern Mongolia.  On one side, there are Russian…

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  • Departure [by Luke Meinzen; photo Leigh Wells)

    August 4, 2008

    Travel here is an imitation of contortionism, an exercise in patience, and more interesting in retrospect. [Photograph by Leigh Wells; diagram and pasting by Luke Meinzen]

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  • Waiting. [by Luke Meinzen]

    August 4, 2008

    "You can get so confused that you’ll start in to race down long wiggled roads at a break-necking pace and grind on for miles across weirdish wild space, headed, I fear, toward a most…

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