stone · metamorphic, cleavable, roofing-grade
the colour of the sky before a long rain that has not started yet. the
colour of sea seen from above, on the day the wind has stopped. the
colour of a writing tablet that has been wiped not quite clean.
slate is the colour of waiting. it lines the roof of every old building in
sometemple. it is the floor of basement and the wall of the long corridor
between memory and the rooms below it. you can read whatever you want
onto a slate. it will not argue.
between cobalt and smoke. neither warm nor cold. a neutral with
its mind made up.