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Rear View Mirror

If you'd seen her there, trying to rise, you'd understand
why I didn't make a sound. If you'd seen how many times
her spindly forelegs dug themselves forward, trying to
lift the stone cart of herself off her yearling flanks--
if you'd watched her head toss left and right,
searching for instructions from any corner--
if you'd seen how she finally broke through
the cowl of her pain and pulled
herself upright, you'd know
why I sat there paralyzed.

Then you'd have seen how she was denied the heady
moment given to any flimsy fawn who makes it to its feet--
how she couldn't pause a second to feel gravity
pull away from her hooves and slink back in the earth.
And you'd have stayed there with her too,
hanging onto the wheel like an exhausted god
till she tossed her death on the heap of her shadow
and hauled herself to the woods,
one leg scratching jaggedly behind her
like a lie on a lie-detector test
until she disappeared.

Only then would you have pulled apart your harness
and stepped out and seen the smashed side mirror
pressed flush against the window where your shoulder
had just been. Only then would you have
touched the caved-in door that held the
sudden wave-like thud

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Joan Murray (art historian)

Canadian writer, curator, and art historian

This article is about the art historian. For other uses, see Joan Murray (disambiguation).

Joan Arden Charlat MurrayOOnt FRSC (born August 12, 1943) is an American-born Canadian art historian, writer and curator.

Education and personal life

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Joan Charlat was born in New York City in 1943.^[1] She moved to Canada in 1959 to marry W. Ross Murray (1930–2020) and studied art history at the University of Toronto, receiving an Honours B.A. (1965). Murray completed an M.A. at Columbia University in 1966.^[1]^[2]

Career

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In 1968 she took a position as the head of education at the Art Gallery of Ontario; in 1969 she became Research Curator, and following that became the first Curator of Canadian Art (1970–1973). At the Gallery, she also served as the Acting Chief Curator (1972).^[2] From 1974^[3] to 1999, Murray served as Director of the Robert McLaughlin Gallery in Oshawa.^[4] From 2005–2006, Murray served as the Interim Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer^[5] of the McMichael Canadian Art Collection in Kleinburg, Ontario after the unexpected resignation of Vincent Varga.^[6]^[7]

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