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An Absence of Sea

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at times oneiric confession at times philosophical contemplation in epistolary form An Absence of Sea unfolds as a breathless letter to the other a lover a double the sea time itself tracing the shadowed terrain where self meets its echo where longing takes on form where thought becomes touch moving through the quiet of solitude it follows the fragile carnal continuity of existence a gesture of return where the impossible is the only home that holds us a poetics of knowing and being known through the gaze through touch through the echo of another // "and the mind my love like Orpheus turns back and loses what it sought and from that loss it thinks a world and enacts a hermeneutics of rupture of catastrophe of the always already lost that we pretend to retrieve through logos yet what calls is not what is but what remains what haunts what resists what trembles at the threshold of touch what refuses to be grasped a haunting not of despair but of breath if there were no haunting there woul

An Absence of Sea An Absence of Sea Christina Tudor-Sideri 2026 at times oneiric confession at times philosophical contemplation in epistolary form An Absence of Sea unfolds as a breathless letter to the other a lover a double the sea time itself tracing the shadowed terrain where self meets its echo where longing takes on form where thought becomes touch moving through the quiet of solitude it follows the fragile carnal continuity of existence a gesture of return where the impossible is the only home that holds us a poetics of knowing and being known through the gaze through touch through the

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