To Fathom

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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