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- Published 20191105
- ISBN: 9781925773804
- Extent: 264pp
- Paperback (234 x 153mm), eBook
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The knitting
The spores that caught and coupled. The filaments that grew, the hyphae that became the sum of our parts. All of it powered by water, powered by oxygen, powered by sugars, nutrients, deaths, resulting in bodies rotting in the ground. We spread out, touching the soft new roots of trees, entering them. Connecting them. A knitting.
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