Lapis Lazuli Palm Stone Incense Resin whose fine parallel fibres throw

whose fine parallel fibres throw a chatoyant band of light that travels along it as it turns

alongside the sage and the sweet Peruvian wood burned after it

the natural mineral inclusions produce individual character

the blue of the royal tombs of Ur

Three continents in three smokes

Lapis Lazuli Palm Stone Incense Resin whose fine parallel fibres throwLapis lazuli deep ultramarine scattered with gold, the blue of the royal tombs of Ur, its pyrite read by the ancient world as stars against a night sky. From Afghanistan, a palm stone. It is a rock, not a single mineral lazurite for the deep blue, calcite for the white veining, pyrite for the brass gold flecks. An evenly perfect blue with no markings is often dyed; the variation here is the genuine stone. Mined at a single mountain, Sar i Sang in the