We’re in a constitutional crisis and I need Walt Whitman right now.

In this episode I take a break from reading “By Blue Ontario’s Shore” to become possessed by a barking, chanting, deliberate spirit of Whitman, who arrives as a voice from the past to tell us how from over the carnage will rise prophetic a voice.

And Whitman knew carnage, as we will hear in the second half of my reading of “By Blue Ontario’s Shore.”