Root Cap

on their way

beneath the funeral pyre of the god, cellular life
is what the dead use to light the fire

the dark

that That

so that the eternal can die, the dead labor with shovels: the one makes a hole
that can hold the other a lifetime

yield & sway

if gods are destined to die while cellular life but a changeling of the eternal
than death is divine and to live what is most immortal

a pubescent empedocles