Tiny Dancer: March 2018

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should have taken pictures of the tin buckets tapped onto the maples along the
road through the woods, but the road was narrow and winding and wet and the
only place to stop would have been somebody’s driveway with a Keep Out sign
where I risked having my head blown off with a shotgun, so I didn’t.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span></div>
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should have taken a picture of the guy in the green bill hat with the square
gray beard standing behind the glass cases of large snakes when he unzipped his
coat to reveal a fat black king snake coiled between his belly and his jacket,
but I had been wary of him before he startled me with that move.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>He had meanly shining eyes and a disturbed
war vet aura that made me hesitate to ask him any favors, so I didn’t.</div>
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woman balanced boxes of maple doughnuts between her sagging chins and bulging
breasts as she unlocked her large SUV. and I decided against any maple
doughnuts.</div>
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As I
was sliding in my rain boots down the muddy driveway to the old Ruritan club
building, I asked two obese women breathing heavily as they trudged toward me
how the pancake and sausage breakfast was.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> 
</span>One rolled her brown cow eyes and burped as the other answered, “Filling.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span></div>
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As I
approached the door a remarkably overweight couple came out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>The man muttered to his wife, “It really wasn’t that
good.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>They did not strike me as
discriminating eaters, so I turned around.</div>
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It
was supposed to warm up today, but it didn’t.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> 
</span>I had hoped to work in the garden, but it was too cold.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> 
</span>So I made pumpernickel bread with molasses and orange zest and a blazing
fire and read Nabokov and Lorca.</div>
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Surely
this winter will end?</div>
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