Feb: Surplus, 1 in 4

Affliction: vive le leap year, and for les voyages spontanés
Remedy: Chicago-London-Chicago-Philadelphia-Chicago. Cha Cha Cha.

Feb: Space for hire

Affliction: saisionnier, clef, garance (botanique et narratif).
Remedy: perspective, architecture, linden (botanique et géographique).

Feb: portrait d'elle en deux; yes that's her.

Affliction: discipline; lone ranger.
Remedy: lone discipline; range.

Feb: hélas

Affliction: A nest-house is never young. (Bachelard)
Remedy: Je cueillis un nid dans le squelette du lierre/Un nid doux de mousse champêtre et herbe de songe. (Goll)
And: Chicago-Dallas-Chicago

Feb: bolt

Affliction: ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ.
Remedy: OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.

Feb: faire bruler, faire fondre, etc.

Iceage: toujours.
Non: drowsiness, appetite.

Feb: pocket nest leap forest

To Afflict: empty your_________ and then ___________ into the ____________.
To Remedy: __________ your leap and then nest ____________ the pocket.

Feb: discarded, from above.

Red light: you know the feeling.
On Waiting: silence is a response.
Who Cares: pick it up.

Feb: cold like the weather, broken like...

To Afflict: place them in a row. Command them all to take a dive off the bridge and into that gorgeous field of black ice.
To Remedy: Wrap them in a hot towel and take out all of the staples; glue back together and slip into a slim, plastic binder.

Feb: visits and new leaves.

Afflicion: come and gone.
Remedy: make the worst eggs benedict possible and enjoy them. Be thankful for photography.

Feb: living on the North Pole

Affliction: some think it is always Christmas here; yes, it is 30 degrees below Zero, ero, ero (-34.4444444444444 Celsius) avec le vent qui souffle, ouffle, ouffle.
Remedy: continue to believe the discarded shreds in red are in fact opera gloves; continue to recall that there are no free gifts.

Feb: the bears are coming.

Affliction: contents: fragile (pronunciation: fra-gee-lay).
Remedy: continue that gab; cousin FANG's delightful ness. Remember Italia where there were no hamsters or hamster wheels, tubes, apartments, that moment when your path was just your path.

Feb: Ceci n'est pas une pipe, albedo.

Affliction: you feel that your head has become an ancient fur shroud, incomprehensible to all, unrecognizable to many who once thought they knew you.
Remedy: change your hat, change your drink, change your state.

Feb: upon coming home from a party.

Symptom: they let it all hang out. Boots not shoes; tongues and laces.
Cure: remember that this is still a hotel. Pleasant but temporary; a rented place for mirth and work. Welcome cousins.

Feb: What would Montaigne do?

Affliction: there is just too much and too little information. You can't wear your MaryJanes becuase there is too much snow.
Remedy: remember you like your work more and more. Someone may give you a potato in the near future. "'Tis very probable, that visions, enchantments, and all extraordinary effects of that nature, derive their credit principally from the power of imagination, working and making its chiefest impression upon vulgar and more easy souls, whose belief is so strangely imposed upon, as to think they see what they do not see." Montaigne

Feb: Ships sail and then they dock.

Affliction: that floating feeling and the desire to set up shop; an anchor is poised abaft; the tempting sway and slurp.
Remedy: seabands with many large bracelets; shades. Buy the following: a box of 64 crayons, a bobstay and a fancy, hand-made binnacle.

Feb: Chercher c'est vivre, trouver c'est mourir.*

Going to a funeral, to work, to search, to carry, to convey, to lament or discuss and to be warm. Thinking is private.

*SIC, 1916.