river-tumbled · grey
no. 11 · st-coll.
shaped not by anyone in particular and not by chance, exactly, but by every river the stone has been in for the last forty thousand years. the band of darker grey is a seam in its argument with itself.
nearly the same in the hand as the larger stone on the desk, only smaller, only smoother. closer to the round pebbles that line the harbour path than to the flint it likely passed in the current.
good for the pocket. better for the bottom of a glass of water where it improves the water's silence.
field-note — wet, it returns a different colour than it shows dry. always slightly bluer. always slightly less itself.