Something Like #36 - A Resurrected Thing, w/ Bitsy Knox 09.09.2021

This episode of Something Like imagines dipping your fingers into a glassy
subterranean river, impossibly still, ancient—a gradually collected, fluid
experience. Jorie Graham's 2020 poem Thaw—where the title of this episode comes
from—draws on another image: a plot in the back of her building, a "green
sensation" that pushes up, pushes it. She writes, " . . . Our prior lives press
on us. / Something with heavy re- / collection in it / presses. Not / history
anymore of course but / like it. Is it five minutes or five hundred years. . . "


This is an episode interested in marking change, locating decisions, and
witnessing shifts in spatial orientation, but it's also an episode that calls on
interior magic.




* As ever, thanks to Roger 3000 for Something Like's jingles.
* The music under my voice today comes from John Chen (陈国平) and his album Songs
From Within (心意), 1999.
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