Sloughed Cells: A Root Cap Glossary

The Hole

Pythagoras & his followers also said that the void exists, and that it enters the universe from the infinite breath, the universe being supposed to breathe in the actual void, which keeps different kinds of things apart; for they define void as that which seperates and divides things that are next to each other. This happens first in numbers; the void divides their nature.

Aristotle

In the division of numbers, the even, when parted in any direction, leaves as it were within itself an end; but when the same thing is done with the odd, there is always a middle left over from the division. 

Plutarch

the young ones who will

how to a stranger without a neighbor can love warm
or in its effort this Love thy neighbor become not
what sin will in this cold?

Strife

So good sir, look out and see to it that you do not, by moving and transferring each thing to its natural place, produce in your philosophy a dissolution of the cosmos & bring Empedocles' strife to bear on things...not desiring combination or communion with one another; fleeing and not admitting of blending or communion with one another, turning away and executing their separate & self willed movements, they were in the condition which Plato attributed to everything from which the god is absent...

Plutarch  

reciprocus

reciprocus: moving backward & forward so that the departure of the return (the backward) is the becoming of the end (the forward);

in eternity, an exchange that begins the movement & the movement, for a lifetime, that ends the exchange;

in existence, sex is the reciprocus of the dead, a hole the reciprocus of the dark, a star, the reciprocus of the fire, & nothing the reciprocus of the god

“The fire that burns reciprocus is an exchange of dark that becomes in stars a force of expectation—this (in pausa) being the central preoccupation of becoming.” R.C.

For the perishable is nothing when it is past, and it is of its essence to pass away, quickly as the moment of sensuous enjoyment, the farthest possible remove from the eternal; a moment in time filled with emptiness.

Concluding Unscientific Postscript

The Hidden

death hides in all that is alive because when the dead die
they no longer hide—when the dead die death hides
& those deathless welcome the sunlight

Mark Jones

Rooted: February 6th, 1949
Last leaf: October 29th, 2008

he is a ring of heartwood
this tree will be with
even after death

Root Cap

The Shunned

Rapture

what stellar bodies convey of the superabundance (this plenum of outrageous emptiness); the provisional excess of stars

After The Fire

birth is how life remembers what it forgets when the living die for death is what keeps memory alive. without it memory dies & the living never survive

Xerophyllum tenax