True Myrrh (Commiphora Myrrha) Yemen Red Jasper as if the stone carried

as if the stone carried its own light

A different sandalwood entirely

the stone the ancient world took for ice frozen beyond thawing

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True Myrrh (Commiphora Myrrha) Yemen Red Jasper as if the stone carriedMyrrh is a grounding scent without much joy in it, but a quiet kind of presence the resin people have reached for at gatherings where words feel insufficient. Burned alongside frankincense across Arabian, Mediterranean, and Christian traditions. The companion to frankincense for as long as anyone has burned either. Where frankincense lifts a room, myrrh deepens it. The two together carry an older register slower, balsamic, dense, asking the room to