ALBÂTRE SÉPIA STARTERDONOTTOUCH Spun sugar and buttered notes

Spun sugar and buttered notes pack the middle

Wear it on a station platform where the light goes flat and northern

What you paid for the set credits back against the bottle you keep

Florian Gallo carves the Alba truffle raw

and you take it in before you can name it

ALBÂTRE SÉPIA STARTERDONOTTOUCH Spun sugar and buttered notesFlorian Gallo carves the Alba truffle raw, geological, ground from cold soil before dawn. Beside it he lodges India ink: ferric, metallic, the cool sting of fresh ink. Brazilian pink pepper fractures the air. Somali frankincense bites a single edge down the middle. Madagascar vanilla, resinous, weighs against the truffle without ever turning it to sugar. The vicuna accord presses in last, the way a palm presses flat on cold stone. Six hours later, on