Date: 2001
"But loss is a current: the coolness of one side of a wet finger held up, the faint hiss in your ears at midnight, water sliding over the dam at the back of your mind, memory unremembering itself."
preview | full record— Richardson, James (b. 1950)
Date: 2001
"Wind, ocean, fire: the things we like to liken our passions to don't break, can't stop."
preview | full record— Richardson, James (b. 1950)
Date: 2002
"The river rises in the mind, but empties nowhere, / Its hair naked in naked branches."
preview | full record— Wright, Charles (b. 1935)
Date: 2006
"Back at Dayton Chaminade High, Weber had begun intellectual life as a confirmed Freudian--brain as hydraulic pipe for mind's spectacular waterworks--anything to confound his priest teachers."
preview | full record— Powers, Richard (b. 1957)
Date: Jul 18, 2009
"I can only wonder what it's like to be so well rested, to know that the deep pool of sleep within you -- the somnifer, I suppose it's called -- is filled to the brim."
preview | full record— Klinkenbourg, Verlyn (b. 1952)
Date: March 11, 2011
"The huge submerged bulk of the mental iceberg, with its stores of memory and acquired skills that have become automatic, like language, driving and etiquette, supplies people with the raw materials on which they can exercise their reason and decide what to think and what to do."
preview | full record— Nagel, Thomas (b. 1937)
Date: July 1, 2013
"Many lines of poetry are so long-embedded in my memory that I find them appearing when I speak or write. Sometimes I am quoting. Sometimes I am unconsciously drawing from the reservoir."
preview | full record— Ebert, Roger (1942-2013)
Date: September 19, 2014
"But concealment makes the soul a swamp. Confession is how you drain it."
preview | full record— Blow, Charles (b. 1970)
Date: December 12, 2014
"Though it seems counterintuitive, it is physically permanent stuff that evaporates from our minds."
preview | full record— Brooks, Arthur C. (b. 1964)