The essay was recently published in the excellent bioStories, edited by the excxellent Mark Leichliter. I recommend the publication: https://biostories.com/Thanks for reading Sydney’s Newsletter! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.
The poem is preamble and commentary, sets you up for the precision, the diction, the care for the writing, it seems (or that is a connection I make). Beautifully done.
Wonderful piece: "Sometimes I’m a person too bent on finding connections among things I observe, even, or perhaps especially, when most of the observations are inner and visionary, if you’ll forgive that grandiose word. Is this the sort of thing you also do? I mean, do you make up some narrative that threads things together by way of what we glibly call mere imagination? " Yes, I do.
The poem is preamble and commentary, sets you up for the precision, the diction, the care for the writing, it seems (or that is a connection I make). Beautifully done.
Wonderful piece: "Sometimes I’m a person too bent on finding connections among things I observe, even, or perhaps especially, when most of the observations are inner and visionary, if you’ll forgive that grandiose word. Is this the sort of thing you also do? I mean, do you make up some narrative that threads things together by way of what we glibly call mere imagination? " Yes, I do.
Great work Sydney.