After reading Archipelago of the Sun, North Woods is refreshingly straightforward, though i recognize why Archipelago was puzzling. It's of a different time, now. I went to the indoor farmer's market inside Experimental Station, got concord grapes and sunflower honey, and these pictures on the way, of the abandoned station on 60th street a block from the Obamachron. Chicago seems to be the epicenter of Trump's ICE assault on the forsaken country that spawned him. Like Trump, the forsaken country seems to be in a progressive dementia, spiraling into an abyss. Though we've seen it all before, this time feels like an ending, but stay tuned, perhaps it's only an eerie, uncanny culmination.