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Moss Agate
Moss agate they said; fossilized algae. Held to the light its smooth surface reflects like water, flecks of crystal, white bubbles of roiled foam, the soft whorls of green, still alive. A view of some quiet water's algaed-edge, the glitter and gloaming from a stream long gone; a fossilized moment in time. Would this stony seed if placed on a bright and sunny hillside, then carefully listened to, like a seashell against one’s ear, release the mummer of a summer’s breeze belonging to the day a millennia past? |
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Anyn
Johansson, Covina, 2013 ©
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author.