splake journeys through the most passive reaches of the human mind, drawing at first triplets of poesy and finally longer splake-styled verse. When I refer to passive I mean these are memories, and memories are re-lived. As the Dutch philosopher Kierkegaard once quipped, "Life is lived forward, but understood backwards." Is poetry a way toward understanding the past or is it likely the closest thing to time travel we have?The opening quotes make clear...
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