April 20
	2005 COLORADO BOOK AWARD WINNER
	jane hilberry
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	MY MUSE PREFERS
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	a five-star hotel with jacuzzi and big bathrobes. I always book a room with two beds, one for her to lounge on. She eats both of the mints on the pillows. She won't start the day till we've read the morning news, and if the croissants are stale, there's hell to pay. Sometimes I look around to find she's disappeared, gone off for a pedicure. She speaks to me in languages I can't understand--she's pretending to be in Paris, strolling the Champs-Elysees. She drops allusions to works of art I haven't seen, thinks I'm a bit of rube. And maybe I am-- doing her work for her, following her every suggestion, as if she were a goddess. She wants me to take her to the Greek Isles: the air there will give her fresh ideas. I know how it works: I'll be carrying the luggage when she meets a Greek man with curly chest hair and a deep tan. Then she'll be gone for good.
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	about the poet
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	Jane Hilberry is a poet and a professor of English at Colorado College in Colorado Springs. Her book of poems titled Body Painting won the 2005 Colorado Book Award for poetry and she has published work in national literary journals including The Hudson Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, and The Women's Review of Books. Jane is a faculty member in the Banff Centre's "Art of the Executive Leader" and "Powerful Expression" programs, and also offers workshops on e-mail intelligence. Her most recent book, co-authored with Mary Lynn Pulley, is titled Get Smart! How E-Mail Can Make or Break Your Career--and Your Organization.
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