![[ID: Her finger dug in my underjaw / was the first time I’d been touched / in months. You can’t know / how many minutes I spent on this. For you. / What’s a dollar when I’m telling you / I trembled like a bathing animal.]](https://64.media.tumblr.com/496f5fd3596e207c0587c3885e81c883/d3b36b61a8052589-a7/s1280x1920/9ca9c4261d9081a30749b90f8ee63283789c0bc4.jpg)
ALTGut, J. Bailey Hutchinson
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Seen in the window at Gulf of Maine Books in Brunswick, Maine.
Photo: Bill Roorbach
“The myth persists that in 1492 the Americas were a sparsely populated wilderness, a world of barely perceptible human disturbance. There is substantial evidence, however, that the Native American landscape of the early sixteenth century was a humanized landscape almost everywhere. Populations were large. Forest composition had been modified, grasslands had been created, wildlife disrupted, and erosion was severe in places. Earthworks, roads, fields, and settlements were ubiquitous.”
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