Archive - The Mnemonic Deep

How to save a ghost

Widening circles of self and story

Jul 6 •

Matthew Battles

April 2025

Promises to the past

Tenderness and survival in nightingale time

Apr 9 •

Matthew Battles

March 2025

Full of trees and changing leaves

Mimicry as memory

Mar 10 •

Matthew Battles

February 2025

Celestial Bodies

The strange cosmology of the sonnets

Feb 25 •

Matthew Battles

Grief is a cave in the middle of the sky

Thoreau and the art of losing

Feb 8 •

Matthew Battles

November 2024

The seed in winter

Finding faith in the hollowness of a moment like this

Nov 17, 2024 •

Matthew Battles

October 2024

Where the singing comes from

Raveling and unraveling at the edge of music

Oct 18, 2024 •

Matthew Battles

September 2024

The generous conjugations of leaves

Sep 25, 2024 •

Matthew Battles

April 2024

Ephemera and memory beneath the entangled sky

Apr 14, 2024 •

Matthew Battles

March 2024

The Memory of a Horse

Beyond the enigma of an ancient site, the enduring intimacy of care

Mar 5, 2024 •

Matthew Battles

December 2023

Balm for a World of Wounds

Pain and fear and time and trees

Dec 20, 2023 •

Matthew Battles

November 2023

The flitting memory of Dickinson and Thoreau

Recollection in forgetting, memory in motion

Nov 30, 2023 •

Matthew Battles

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