Keta

Keta

n.
a random image from your distant past that leaps back into your attention, that doesn’t mean much of anything but is somehow able to keep fighting against the current, swimming back and forth in your mind, still developing.

After a species of salmon, Oncorhynchus keta, which “run” upstream to spawn every year, leaping back to the place they were born; they’re not worth much commercially, but the ketas don’t know that. When we look back on our lives, it’s not just the moments that we remember, not the grand gestures and catered ceremonies, or the world we capture poised and smiling in photos. It’s the little things—the minutes—the cheap raw material of ordinary time. Pronounced “kay-tuh.”

Lap Year

Lisolia

O’Erpine

Etterath

Harke

Tirosy

Fellchaser

Solla, Solla, Solla

Keir

Alpha Exposure

Mithenness

Énouement

Spinning Playback Head

Inerrata

Present-Tense

Thwit

Clockwise

Zysia

Mal De Coucou

Emodox

Daguerreologue

Daguer-reologue

Eftless

Keir

Ecury

Slipfast

Future-Tense

La Cuna