ORACLE PHYTHEA
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vandrendehareSassafras opaca – A tree whose leaves are the grasping hands of the abyss. The oils are sweeter, grittier, cloying. Also they unstick flesh and plant matter, making it malleable.
Abyssal Birch – Another tree, whose rugose bark shifts and twitches. You can see it slink, up and down, back and forth, stretching, bunching up, splitting, shedding pagan-green sap like watery riotous spring. The bark adheres to flesh, it fixes to run.
Notional Aspen – When you think on it, you are it. The tree grows in you, and you are part of the tree. You shiver when it shakes. The symptoms are chills and golden eyes. Your children belong to the tree as much as you do.
Bloody Mess Maple – Here we have a maple tree that bleeds. All the time. The blood is thin and light, coppery, and the maple sugar collects on the branches like clustered garnets. The blood is a medium, a quantum entangler, no difference between it and your blood. No difference between it and any blood. The ground beneath the tree where the blood falls grows feathers and bird bones.
Shy Oak – Trees hide from you. Where are they? Anywhere. Look, there’s an acorn like onyx beneath your pillow.
Lich Apple – If you eat of this fruit, so shall you never die. Sort of.
None of the trees respect the boundary between plant and animal. Or animal and animal, plant and plant, thought and object, dream and waking. This is the young-growth forest of the abyss. All scrub and darkness, where ghoulish seals or seal-like ghouls swim between the trees. Where the samaras drop as mussel shells.
Bleeding puppets and wooden bones.
Porcupine needles to inject the secret saps.
We’ve been bottled. We’ve all be bottled up.
Abyssal Birch – Another tree, whose rugose bark shifts and twitches. You can see it slink, up and down, back and forth, stretching, bunching up, splitting, shedding pagan-green sap like watery riotous spring. The bark adheres to flesh, it fixes to run.
Notional Aspen – When you think on it, you are it. The tree grows in you, and you are part of the tree. You shiver when it shakes. The symptoms are chills and golden eyes. Your children belong to the tree as much as you do.
Bloody Mess Maple – Here we have a maple tree that bleeds. All the time. The blood is thin and light, coppery, and the maple sugar collects on the branches like clustered garnets. The blood is a medium, a quantum entangler, no difference between it and your blood. No difference between it and any blood. The ground beneath the tree where the blood falls grows feathers and bird bones.
Shy Oak – Trees hide from you. Where are they? Anywhere. Look, there’s an acorn like onyx beneath your pillow.
Lich Apple – If you eat of this fruit, so shall you never die. Sort of.
None of the trees respect the boundary between plant and animal. Or animal and animal, plant and plant, thought and object, dream and waking. This is the young-growth forest of the abyss. All scrub and darkness, where ghoulish seals or seal-like ghouls swim between the trees. Where the samaras drop as mussel shells.
Bleeding puppets and wooden bones.
Porcupine needles to inject the secret saps.
We’ve been bottled. We’ve all be bottled up.
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Date: 2018-01-29 10:09 pm (UTC)I like it.
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Date: 2018-01-31 03:15 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-01-29 10:59 pm (UTC)Shy Oak – Trees hide from you. Where are they? Anywhere. Look, there’s an acorn like onyx beneath your pillow. --love it
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Date: 2018-01-31 03:16 pm (UTC)