a magical dictionary from bitumen to sunlight

cadence	: the sound of one material meeting another, hello! : heartbeat, disrupted & adapting : tree percussion, funky fir cavitation
crushed	: pressing so hard as to lose one’s own shape : tiny privatized homes the size of skulls or microchips relying on rare earth across continents : what capitalism has executed upon forests
ancestors	: holding my body up through cellular memory, anonymous : condensed over eons into mineral wealth : material in the headlights, reconfigured as a vintage car more retro than we know, heavy metals millennia old
carries	: one act of the written word : a sapling song courtesy of xylem, transpires to proliferate in the ether
ceremony	: shaping one’s gestures to honour what has not been lost, just buried : the music that we forget is music
mercurial	: a host of premonitions, close to the source : the sound of fire in the sky
micro	: a power we don’t have words for : the burgess shale in your eyelashes
bitumen	: buried ancestors, unearthed & burned to expand the ocean : pitched sacrifice zone wherever it bubbles up, hellishly excavated
sunlight	: in orchestra with monthly pull, nocturnal howl : beaming in the future, a planetary revolution, a graced turning
祖先