{"id":5308,"date":"2024-03-31T18:15:19","date_gmt":"2024-03-31T23:15:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/creamcityreview\/?page_id=5308"},"modified":"2026-01-08T16:18:31","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T22:18:31","slug":"cheshire-maya-c-thompson","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/creamcityreview\/cheshire-maya-c-thompson\/","title":{"rendered":"Cheshire – Maya C. Thompson"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u201cMy asemic writing contemplates self-image: the curated individual\u2019s functions based on possessions and cultural attitudes. I was influenced by the television series Phrogging: Hider in My House<\/em> and poems by W.S. Merwin, ‘What is Modern’ and ‘Questions to Tourists Stopped by a Pineapple Field.’ The secret dweller mocks the idea of happiness by choosing a flashy item\u2014the pineapple that he scrounges off the homeowners; opulence of the fruit is in contrast with his survival mode. In the audacious purple ink, through these gestures on a stark white backdrop, he lurks in the discussion.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Phrogger Initiates A Thread About Dehydrated Pineapple in the Modern Age<\/strong><\/h2>\n

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Spunk Island If the Birds Do For W. S. Merwin<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n

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Maya C. Thompson<\/strong> is a writer from Maryland. Her poetry has appeared in Brooklyn Poets<\/em>, Dialogist<\/em>, The Shore<\/em>, and elsewhere, while her research and writing about Ruth Muskrat Bronson can be found in the Recovering Democracy Archives: Speech Recovery Project<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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