Stone World
Observe one stone, time for the stone.
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Resembling Dendrodoris fumata.
Bluish gray breath, brown constellations drifting across the surface.
A stone shaped by the sea of Fukui.
It has melted—like a strawberry milk candy.
Rich milk on the outside, strawberry sunk deep within.
It looks as if it would shatter if bitten, yet it will never break.
A stone from the coast of Fukui.
A white dream-butterfly.
Chasing it, I wandered into a dim, pale room.
Blue-green all around. A small sun floated in the air, though I couldn’t tell what it was.
The butterfly seemed utterly captivated by this unknown glow.
A stone from the shores of Kanagawa.
Like a white maitake mushroom.
A perfect balance of translucence and pure white.
A small fragment of agate, found on the coast of Fukui.
Like a snow-covered riverbank cliff.
A pale gray tinged with green, contrasted by white — quietly exquisite.
A stone from the shores of Kanagawa.