A Concordance of Motifs
The Recurring Image
The same images return across the poems, stories, and essays of James Mulhern — a doorway, a cupped hand, a slant of kitchen sun. Select a motif to follow it wherever it travels.
Listen while you read
J. S. Bach, The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I: Prelude No. 12 in F minor, BWV 857. Kimiko Ishizaka, piano. Public-domain recording, Internet Archive.
Read the Motifs at Length
These images are read closely in the essays — The Habit of Return, Water, and What It Carries, and Unquenchable Fire.