Distribution Points by David Buuck

22 pages

September, 2026

This work attempts to probe the way memory ‘actually’ works—using autobiographical material as it becomes dispersed into various modes of non-chronological/paratactic accumulation & 'distributed' meaning. Rarely if ever do we experience memory as a stable & unchanging archive of ‘facts’ organized into realist modes of narration. Rather, memories flash up in fragmentary images & sensory-flares, transformed by various triggers and associations from 'outside.' In conventional narration and ‘retelling,’ memory appears to cohere into conventional grammars and logical sense; by contrast, this work uses  repetition, rhyme, associational connections & contrapuntal organization to understand one's past in its present reckoning.

David Buuck is a writer & organizer living in Oakland, where he edits Tripwire. davidbuuck.com.