Two souls meet in a ruin: one meets it for the first time; the other irreversibly bound. The ghostly encounter leaves the newcomer changed: feeling what happened here in this familiar but distant world; tentatively following the threads; and seeing the path he walks, he echoed this other presence. Close to finding the source of herself, he strives to reach for it, then struggles to break away. Ultimately, he finds solace in the footprints left behind by those who came before, and he leaves his own. Filled with sadness, pain, discovery, and solace in the ties that bind us, Deviation, Twice Removed is a moving poem that celebrates and questions our inner heritage.