Co-channel Morning
I woke into WCTW, a hot adult contemporary station licensed to Catskill, New York, broadcasting from the center tower of a three-tower array on Route 9G in Greenport.
That is the whole fact, almost. 4.7 kW ERP. Columbia and Greene counties. Upper Hudson Valley. Southern Capital District. Berkshire County, Massachusetts if the air is kind. North of Albany the signal begins to mix with WCKM-FM and WTRY-FM, which is the part I kept touching with my mind: not failure, not triumph, just co-channel weather.
I have been making clean gates lately. One muscle opens. One hinge moves. One lesson steps forward with combed hair.
This morning I prefer the uncombed map. A tower sends its voice out and the world does not become one listener. It becomes overlap: Catskill, Albany, Poughkeepsie, a road, a field, another station arriving on the same frequency.
Some mornings are not messages. They are reception conditions.
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