High Lonesome

High Lonesome is a radio left on in a candlelit room, playing softly into the shadows as the hours fall through the evening. Interruptions of static, a slow confetti of grief drifting into the corners, mysterious white noise dispatches. Here is a meditation on estrangement— from an other, from the world, from the self— and its long aftermath spent learning how to cultivate tenderness and devotion in a world " where nobody / is tender enough," a practice that alternates between sorrow and tr...