This morning, reading in my journal from 2001, I found I’d copied this line from Mark Jarmen in the American Poetry Review for March/April of that year. The poem is called “Epistle.” According to my journal, Jarmen had six poems in that issue of the APR and each one was titled “Epistle.”

Life enters memory faster every day.

Then I opened up the current issue of The Louisville Review to Bianca Spriggs’s poem “You Can’t Step in the Same River Twice,” which begins

To remember a thing
is to remember...