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Settling in a greenhouse like a first coat of dust. The rite of settling the preparation: pores for binding with panes; bulking through a diet of one’s own meat or the cutting of sleeping bags from prime cuts; flushing out non-arboreal pigments by haunting parks. A scroll of rituals is written in a script that has never been used and was invented in the stomach of something old: future-tensed, these muscular verbs, ready to act on each surface of each noun.