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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

    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

    AFTER THE EQUINOX

    AFTER THE EQUINOX

    It's fall here in southern France. The tourists have thinned out to a trickle of rubbernecks aiming their smart phones at almost anything green or shaggy with vines. They hardly notice how the air has sweetened and left behind the ghost of lavender smells in the harvested fields. But something moves them to stand and stare at a few slow-moving shadows on the empty paths, and to marvel silently at the dark, rusty looking privet hedges that guard the stone houses here and there
    WEARING MY CORRECTIVE LENSES

    WEARING MY CORRECTIVE LENSES

    Sometimes I find myself wandering out of a book into a rambling daydream, one that has neither a beginning nor an end, just a labyrinth of choices and minor discoveries that don't add up to much. It's good. I love the feeling of letting my mind forget the rules of reading and plunge into the high grass. Usually, the place I enter is a field near a river. I can hear the water chattering over the stones, and look out for birds that might be hovering overhead. I keep relaxing mo
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    RETURN TO FRANCE

    RETURN TO FRANCE

    READING THE HEADLINES

    READING THE HEADLINES

    TO STOP THE CLOCK

    TO STOP THE CLOCK

    THE RAIN STORM

    THE RAIN STORM

    JASMINE BLOSSOMS

    JASMINE BLOSSOMS

    EARTH HOUSEHOLD

    EARTH HOUSEHOLD

    SPRING HAS NOT YET SPRUNG

    SPRING HAS NOT YET SPRUNG

    The Hinge of Summer's Door

    The Hinge of Summer's Door

    The Snow It Snoweth Every Day

    The Snow It Snoweth Every Day

    WINTER ON ARTHRITIC KNEES

    WINTER ON ARTHRITIC KNEES

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