Tuesday, October 14, 2025

I was like, what the hell is going on with this one?

"Madonna of the Chair" by Mary Jo Bang| The Poetry Foundation

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/161711/madonna-of-the-chair

And then I remembered when I read this...

'In the spring of 1984, a woman in her early thirties said to me: ' You don't understand this time town because you're an outsider. You don't know what it was like here twenty years ago. That's what we want; that's what we have to get back to.'"

~ Kathleen Norris

"Gatsby on the Plains"

Page 45 in "Dakota"

"Dakota: A Spiritual Geography by Kathleen Norris"| Goodreads

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/108680.Dakota

Imagining people all the way back to Raphael's time saying, "You don't get it. XX years ago, things were so much better..."

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