I take each stone into my curious palm.
grub-gray, salmon, rounded well and calm.
They speak in syllables of sight
marbled, specked, saturned with white.
Recast with each tide they practice silence
search to find an uneasy balance
and work a graceful way down over years
to a grain of sand, to a death without fear.
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