We followed through with a promise to ourselves to pursue warmer weather in January to break the spell of winter.  It was good to drive to the south, through the south, to feel the physical reality of states that have become too abstract in the political dumbshow of recent years.  In the foggy mountains of Tennessee, we discussed important battles fought along the Cumberland  and the Tennessee Rivers and Wallace Stevens' poem "Anecdote of the Jar."    This postcard series is a meditation upon that poem and  "the slovenly wilderness" surrounding us everywhere.