case · 04

spiralis · gastropod · foreign sea

a shell

hold it to the ear and the wrong sea answers. not the one you walked along last summer; one with a different salt, in a different language, ringing from a harbour you have never seen.

it is the size of a coin and it knows things. the inside is pearled with the patience of a creature that has gone elsewhere. it has not been a body for a long time.

field-note · the hollow holds a temperature one degree off the room.

sea · harbour · ferry · island

atlas · return