Etched Obsidian Grooves

Cold silt yields to the grit of fossilized clockwork, where obsidian grooves lock in an impossible geometry beneath the sediment. To press a thumb against these etched teeth is to meet a heavy, somatic resistance that refuses to yield to the soft decay around it. Such rigid structures suggest a design governed by strict laws rather than random accumulation, persisting through centuries of burial. In this quiet layer of earth, the gears remain poised as if waiting for a rhythm that no longer exists.