The Mnemonic Deep

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Twinkle little star
Tell me what to do with myself
Aug 12 • 
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How to save a ghost
Widening circles of self and story
Jul 6 • 
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Promises to the past
Tenderness and survival in nightingale time
Apr 9 • 
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Full of trees and changing leaves
Mimicry as memory
Mar 10 • 
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Celestial Bodies
The strange cosmology of the sonnets
Feb 25 • 
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Grief is a cave in the middle of the sky
Thoreau and the art of losing
Feb 8 • 
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The seed in winter
Finding faith in the hollowness of a moment like this
Nov 17, 2024 • 
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Where the singing comes from
Raveling and unraveling at the edge of music
Oct 18, 2024 • 
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The Mnemonic Deep
The Mnemonic Deep
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