Poems and Thoughts    by Frank Maurer

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My Dream of the Golden-haired Microtus. In my dream, which I wondrously recalled upon waking, Students divided up, some collecting normal brown-haired Microtus, While I and others sought out the beautiful and fanciful, golden-haired specimens. Is there any 'meaning' to this, (or to most others), only as a bazaar recounting-- Perhaps a mental culmination, after so many years, Rewarding my love for this creature with which I mingled my Ph.D. student years, By imagining a beautiful semi-fossorial and important Microtine, Donning it with a mantle of golden hair? Frank Maurer 18 February 2023 0850 AM.