Wine Down Candle Lime the smell of leaves burned

the smell of leaves burned to cleanse a room of what has gone before

you catch the scent from across the kitchen before the first sip

and roasted it tastes like dark caramel

I had not known how tightly I was strung until it began to loosen me

Wine Down Candle Lime the smell of leaves burnedNotes: Lavender, Chamomile, Sage, Rosemary, Camphor, Cedar, Sandalwood The first breath told me otherwise. It was clean and green and keen as a blade: camphor and rosemary, the sharp medicinal sting of them going straight to the back of the throat, the scent of every healing hand that has ever tended me after I had spent myself past all sense. Sage moved beneath it, dry and silver and old, the smell of leaves burned to cleanse a room of what has gone