Article: Choosing a Stone

The tide pulls back, leaving its cargo of stones

on the broad counter of sand.

A boy takes only black stones halved with a white thread,

like a parcel too private to open.

His mother gathers stones that mimic food:

two quartz eggs and a granite potato

and a loaf of bread with a cold crust.

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