cast · dimpled · old service
hammered evenly along the lip. eleven small dimples — the bellfounder's nervous habit, or a kind of marking, the way some shells are scored to be told from other shells.
it has rung. you can feel it has rung: the inside is warm in the way a sentence is warm after being spoken. it has not rung today and it will not ring tomorrow, by general agreement.
field-note · do not lift it. it would surprise too many rooms at once.
chime · chime room · bellringer · ritual