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PAUL CHRISTENSEN
WHERE ARE THE SNOWS OF YESTERYEAR?
The yard looks like a thrift store exploded and left behind all these threadbare white shirts, many of them stained and knotted up. But...
CHRISTMAS AT HOME
A friend of mine was the son of a man who had survived the Bataan Death March. He had seen men stagger out of line knowing they would be...
PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG TWIT
I used to wander around on lower Broadway in Manhattan when I was still a teenager. I had a dead-end job at a valve company taking orders...
STORMY SEAS
Well, let's see what we are confronting these days. Inflation is affecting half of America's families. The Supreme Court is about to end...
A DUST OF SNOW FROM A HEMLOCK TREE
Snow fell here in central Vermont while we were having a family reunion over Thanksgiving in Connecticut. We returned north that Saturday...
The Leaden Hat of Fall
The cold lingers here day after day, a metaphor of old age or illness. Your limbs are heavy, the shoes go on your feet reluctantly. The...
APOCALYPSE SOON
Big freeze last night; dark skies covered us and then the temperature fell into the 20s. I know some field mice gave up on the outside...
BACK HOME AGAIN
It will rain all day today here in Halloween-colored Vermont. The maples will lose many of their remaining leaves and look off with stoic...
WHAT ISOLATION TEACHES US
The magpies have all packed up and left with the last straggling tourists. I don't hear their falsetto cries anymore, and I miss them. I...
A CUP OF LIGHT
Such sudden cool weather has me rushing to the car to get some free heat from the sun. The house is cold, the stones are numb with last...
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