Sloughed Cells: A Root Cap Glossary

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

Sola

soil ruins the leaf to free the seed & ruins the seed
to free the leaf

Organs of Excess

Coffin

"A life-bouy of a coffin! Does it go further? Can it be that in
some spiritual sense the coffin is, after all, but an immortality
preserver!"

Ahab

Moby Dick Chapter CXXVII

Longingly

the ignorant egg of truth flourishing in the vivid fatalities of
soil