Listening to Alabama Shakes.  Brittany Howard's  voice a great alternative to the bitter cold weather outside.   The lady can wail and soar and make me want to shake it myself.

(Shakin' break. Can you help?)

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Sorting Facts: or, Nineteen Ways of Looking at Marker by Susan Howe is the first in a series of "poetry pamphlets" from New Directions.  It's an interesting/innovative essay on the film work of Chris Marker.  My first experience of this essay was when Susan gave it as a lecture in an Oberlin art gallery 16 or so years ago.  (My memory for dates is awfully fuzzy at this point.)  A day or so later she gave a great slide show/lecture at Oberlin College on Emily Dickinson.

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Time is an accordion fold.

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I wrote what I think is a pretty good section of Appearances today (fragment 200).

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Time is a side affect.

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Conclusions are boring.
Questions soar above quotidian concerns like speech balloons above the chalk outlines of murder victims.

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