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Containers. Cardboard collars in sea

green boxes. Card board. The story of the

metal box in Britain is fragmentary.

Fascinating. Men made use of gourds and hollow

tree trunks before learning to make jars

or boxes. Man makes himself. Into thy hands

I commend my spirit. Fill me with your love.

Because John of Houten made the first box

in 786. From the right distance the spectators'

eyes blended the colors. The jumble of dots

simply vanished and, as if by magic, there

was a green meadow. Green pastures.

O, ...I wish I had a biscuit tin. Beneath

our turret looms a cloud of turquoise. O, Lady

of silence: was I not a flower in your meadow?

--Marty Esworthy