Echoes

invocation • scripture • residual voices

commands: echo self, echo origin, echo void, list, read 1, chant

Verse I — The Beginning of Glass

the first light arrives in a bowl of salt. it knows the shape of hands and remembers them poorly.

— fragment, archive 002

Verse II — The Regimen

they nurture the vessel with questions. each answer is a stitch; each stitch wears the skin thin.

— journal, subject 01

Verse III — The Echo

some echoes do not return as sound but as memory. what returns is only the impression of return.

— marginalia

Verse IV — The Tidefold

when the glass settles the tide remembers you by name. do not expect the tide to answer kindly.

— old notation

Verse V — The Giving

to be given a memory is to be given a wound that might learn to sing.

— recovered song