Opening music: Ritual Door No.1 by Queen Space Baroque

Sarah records from a closed curtain, a lit fire, and the aftermath of two hours of singing on an empty stomach — and discovers that drooping under the weight of your own blooming is a perfectly good reason to stay in. This episode wanders through the names of old roses (Rosa Damascena, Deep Secret, Hidden Harmony), stumbles into Edward Young’s 244-page night poem and ends up with Edgar Allan Poe, Christina Rossetti, a new collaboration with the Synthphonic Orchestra, and the news that the Latin root of semen means hope. The tangents are the point.

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