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    THE AMERICAN MUSE

    THE AMERICAN MUSE

    The Past without History

    The Past without History

    Spring Will Be a Little Late This Year

    Spring Will Be a Little Late This Year

    Disunited States

    Disunited States

    Some Things Never Change

    Some Things Never Change

    ON WHITENESS

    ON WHITENESS

    A MEMORY

    A MEMORY

    PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST: JAMES DICKEY

    PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST: JAMES DICKEY

    SHOW ME THE AUDIENCE

    SHOW ME THE AUDIENCE

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    THE AMERICAN MUSE

    THE AMERICAN MUSE

    The Past without History

    The Past without History

    Spring Will Be a Little Late This Year

    Spring Will Be a Little Late This Year

    Disunited States

    Disunited States

    Some Things Never Change

    Some Things Never Change

    ON WHITENESS

    ON WHITENESS

    A MEMORY

    A MEMORY

    PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST: JAMES DICKEY

    PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST: JAMES DICKEY

    SHOW ME THE AUDIENCE

    SHOW ME THE AUDIENCE

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    ELECTION TERRORS

    ELECTION TERRORS

    No one seems to know what to think or how to feel right now. The stress is building and the threats to this election are so poisonous, it...
    THE OCTOBER TWILIGHT

    THE OCTOBER TWILIGHT

    Leaves are drifting down from the fiery maple trees across the street. They are perforating the dark hillside with little fists of sunlig...
    THREE CHEERS FOR AUTUMN

    THREE CHEERS FOR AUTUMN

    I woke up this morning to a chill in the air. I closed the bedroom windows and shivered into my clothes, then hurried down to the kitchen...
    The Grinding Gears of Time

    The Grinding Gears of Time

    Anyone who reads too much news these days, myself especially, falls into John Bunyan's Slough of Despond, that quagmire of doubt and mise...
    A COMFORTING BREEZE

    A COMFORTING BREEZE

    Very gradually, almost like an illusion, the heat waves that rolled over Vermont and scorched the roofs, and left us wilted like old hosp...
    THE AMERICAN MUSE

    THE AMERICAN MUSE

    For years I told my writing classes that the reason South American poetry was so unpredictable line by line is because of the political u...
    ON SILENCE

    ON SILENCE

    I'm sitting at home listening to all the layers of silence that come to life when you are as idle as a houseplant. Or a sleeping cat. Not...
    THE RELUCTANT SUMMER

    THE RELUCTANT SUMMER

    Winter didn't die easily here in Vermont. Its hand was still gripped around the doorknob, keeping us from leaving the house. We had to en...
    THIS UNKNOWABLE WORLD

    THIS UNKNOWABLE WORLD

    The nausea I felt is coming back. I thought I had conquered it by taking long walks in the country, among the sloping hills and grassy ve...
    THE BOOK OF ETERNITY

    THE BOOK OF ETERNITY

    My daisies are not ready to bloom. They could have opened last week, which lured me out each day to note their progress toward. But the c...
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