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Steve Miles

Steve Miles lives, writes, and makes pots in Fort Collins, Colorado. His poems have appeared in the Hawaii Review and in a new anthology of erotic writing called The Fabric Of Desire.

— From December 1992
Essays, Memoirs, & True Stories

Zen Mud

I’d planned to arrive in Japan with practically no social resources. I had some money, and my pack was heavy, but I hadn’t bothered to learn Japanese. I wanted to see what would happen. I arrived shaggy, hot, dizzy, and alone.

December 1992
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