The Mnemonic Deep

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How to save a ghost
Widening circles of self and story
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Promises to the past
Tenderness and survival in nightingale time
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Full of trees and changing leaves
Mimicry as memory
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Celestial Bodies
The strange cosmology of the sonnets
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Grief is a cave in the middle of the sky
Thoreau and the art of losing
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The seed in winter
Finding faith in the hollowness of a moment like this
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Where the singing comes from
Raveling and unraveling at the edge of music
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The Mnemonic Deep
The Mnemonic Deep
Memory is a thing we do together, a property of the world.
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