Aged parchment paper background with faint pressed oak leaves and ferns

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Sepia botanical illustration of an oak branch with acorns and ferns

Plate I — From the Field Guide

Pressed Between the Pages

Every specimen here was found, noted, and folded away for keeping. The oak that sheltered the letters. The fern that grew where the path forked. Small things, remembered slowly.


“The woods keep no secrets from those who learn to read the margins.”

A Cottage in the Thicket

Old Letters, Found in the Leaves

Turn the pages by candle and lamplight. What was buried under moss and season is set down here again, ink still faintly warm.