The Mnemonic Deep

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Twinkle little star
Tell me what to do with myself
Aug 12 • 
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July 2025

How to save a ghost
Widening circles of self and story
Jul 6 • 
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April 2025

Promises to the past
Tenderness and survival in nightingale time
Apr 9 • 
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March 2025

Full of trees and changing leaves
Mimicry as memory
Mar 10 • 
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February 2025

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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November 2024

The seed in winter
Finding faith in the hollowness of a moment like this
Nov 17, 2024 • 
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October 2024

Where the singing comes from
Raveling and unraveling at the edge of music
Oct 18, 2024 • 
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September 2024

Shedding Rain
The generous conjugations of leaves
Sep 25, 2024 • 
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April 2024

Totality
Ephemera and memory beneath the entangled sky
Apr 14, 2024 • 
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March 2024

The Memory of a Horse
Beyond the enigma of an ancient site, the enduring intimacy of care
Mar 5, 2024 • 
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December 2023

Balm for a World of Wounds
Pain and fear and time and trees
Dec 20, 2023 • 
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