
After a lengthy pause — a series of pauses, really, punctuated with intermittent updates — August 2022 marked my return to the challenge of *redacting Rosslyn* out of sprawling scrapbooks, flaneurial field notes, poetry and storytelling, lyric essays, monologues, and an avalanche of artifacts.
One of the persistent questions that I’ve been exploring is whether or not there is a cogent (and compelling) way to weave sixteen and a half years into a single, cohesive composition, an engaging word-work worth sharing. (Truth be told, it’s actually