Chase Twichell is the author of numerous poetry collections, including Things as It Is; The Snow Watcher, winner of the Alice Fay di Castagnola Award from the Poetry Society of America; and Horses Where the Answers Should Have Been, winner of the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. After teaching for many years she founded Ausable Press, a publisher of contemporary poetry. She splits her time between Saratoga Springs, New York, and the Adirondacks.

The Trade-Off

by Chase Twichell

As a teenager I became aware
of a need to talk to myself.

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