Recent reads that still have me thinking...

Great article on the complexity of Roberto Bolano's legacy, by another author I also enjoy.

Bolaño Inc.

by Horacio Castellanos Moya November 2009

http://www.guernicamag.com/features/1382/bolano_inc/

[And the tiny pioneer found respite in a manger.]  

Saved this jumping spider from the tides of my sink this morning.  I left him for dead on my window sill but was pleased to find him a half hour later alive, away in a manger. 

(look close for his beady little eyes.)

Always nice when my outdoor friends join me for the winter.

Saguaro dusted in sunlight

Saint Jude strained my neck, so I walked into the Sonoran sprawl

I found myself surrounded by halos glistening amid the chollas

We were all alone together, I in their adobe coat.

Dusk in the cholla garden seeped through my pores to my lungs, eliminating the need for breath

Joshua trees swatted awkwardly at schools of sunbeams

This is a land where there is time enough

This is a land where there is room enough

God delicately planted a saguaro mescal mustache on my forehead.

William Basinki's Disintegration Loops in remembrance of 9/11.

Ten year anniversary concert featuring Basinki....
"Remembering September 11" concert by the Wordless Music Orchestra conducted by Ryan McAdams, presented at The Temple of Dendur in The Metropolitan Museum of Art in Manhattan, NY on September 11, 2011. 
http://www.npr.org/blogs/deceptivecadence/2011/09/07/140265002/remembering-september-11-a-live-concert-webcast-from-the-temple-of-dendur

Robert McCall