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Escaping the Sickness

Be like a muskrat

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Brendan Keen
Sep 17, 2025
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Photo by Brendan Keen. Fort Wayne, 2024.

Muskrats can hold their breath for twenty minutes. Twenty minutes under the surface, in the quiet; at least partially removed from the world. I imagine a gentle sensory deprivation; the hum of the forest falling away as the critter submerges. I look on with envy.

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