1686, Robert Plot, The Natural History of Staffordshire (page 214)... the mould on the boles of the other trees, that lyes commonly there, and is made of the annual rottings of their own leaves.
Material that has rotted.
Janice N. Harrington, PossumFrom the compost rinds and rottings, from the garbage peels, from the shadows' darkness, darkness, this guttered meal and all its redolence.
