Saying this now is probably out of season — a cold wave is sweeping through New Hampshire while, on the other side of the country, wildfires rage — which only goes to show just how varied North America’s climate really is.

The deep-winter wind seems to have drifted into YouTube Music too, with all the “lonely, cold, and tragically beautiful” artists rising to the surface. Well, that’s fine — a little cooling-off does no harm. I’ve been listening to a lot of Tori Amos lately, and this song, “The Pool,” left an especially deep impression on me. As eerie as PJ Harvey’s The River, yet with a different sound entirely… which gets me thinking about poets, and about the soul.