To pollinate means ecstasy

Don't look at the moon tonight

I was just starting to get over New York. 

That's a lie. I'll never get over my first love. But I was starting to let go of my former home, just a little bit, replacing it with my new sunny one. And then I saw Cat Power's new video for "Manhattan," the eighth track off her 2012 album, Sun. I watched it once, and then a few more times, feeling a long-lasting pang of homesickness...a longing to be surrounded by tall buildings with severe facades full of history, to pass by the basketball courts at Chrystie and Houston on my way home from Whole Foods, to walk along the impossibly hard to find Doyers St. in Chinatown, to experience a subway ride from the Spring St. station with crazy dancers and mariachi bands that I endured with annoyance, but now seem quite impressive. Cat Power poetically confirmed what I already knew... anywhere else will never be, never be Manhattan.