
MATERIA
The beginning. Raw matter, before the wound.
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FLOSCULUS SANGUINIS
It kept its colour.
STRATUM
Layers no one asked about.
IMPRESSIO
What time agreed to keep.
Where every piece begins
Before the cut, before the polish, silver in its first language. Matter that still remembers the hand.

FISSURA
Wound worn at the wrist.
CUMULUS SANGUINIS
Nine, never released.
DEVOTIO SANGUINIS
What the throat cannot say.
CORTEX
The layer that protected.
ANULUS SANGUINIS
What circles back.
CORCULUM
Kept in pieces, worn whole.
TORQUES
The chain chosen.
COPULA
Silence between two beats.
CORONA
A crown no one named.
STIGMA
The mark worn on purpose.
KLUSTER SANGUINIS
Seven kept fragments.
CRUCICULA
The smallest devotion.
CAVUM
What burned, still standing.
VINCULUM
What burns at memory's edge.
PLAGA
The scar called beautiful.
FLOS SANGUINIS
Bloom after the cut.
RUPTUM
The day it broke open.
INCISIO
The line that stayed.
LAPIS
Patience, unspoken.