veined · polished face
no. 8 · st-coll.
limestone that suffered a great heat and a great pressure and decided to become handsome. the veins are old fault-lines remembered in another mineral; the stone has, in this sense, a small biography written inside itself.
kept for the cool of it. a piece worth setting on the wrist of someone fevered. cousin to the chalk, having begun life as the same small creatures; cousin to nothing in the kitchen drawer.
polish on one face, rough on the other — both true. it has been a threshold once, in the library of a building no longer standing.
field-note — set against the cheek for a count of ten and the cheek thinks of a hall it has not been in.