Storewell
Storewell
Unexpected, left behind
a storewell of this and that
Recollections like Swiss cheese
yet occasionally dead right.
Vision quest, forty years ago
Shrubs in California’s
high desert Brittlebush
and Four-wind Saltbush
ten days,
my teachers and companions.
Crunched on each day,
thin twigs sticking
out of deer mouths,
they survived
thrived
(My invented word; dictionary definition created by AI)
storewell noun \ˈstȯr-ˌwel\
1. A place, vessel, or faculty in which something—especially memory, knowledge, or feeling—is securely kept or preserved.
2. The capacity for retaining what is valued or meaningful.
Etymology: From store (Old English storu, meaning “supply, provision”) + well (Old English wella, meaning “spring, source”); coined to suggest a deep and reliable repository or source of stored things, particularly memories.
First known use: 21st century.
Example: Her mind was a storewell of remembered laughter and fading light.
a place that funcions well to store what might otherwise be forgotten. legacy in a word...
Storewell... I felt like I knew the word when I read it. A place to store memories, a way to hold them. I immediately also thought of a funeral urn, an important container of memories.
Brilliant, Amrita.