Buried Geometry

Rough silt wedges beneath fingernails while hands pry a calcified nautilus from its earthen cradle. This excavation widens into an immense eye socket, where every stroke of debris uncovers etched grooves upon a weathered basalt slab. As sunbeams illuminate the swirling dust through the opening, the tactile friction between skin and stone reveals a sudden, singular clarity. One finds purpose not in the wholeness of the object, but in the rhythmic labor of bringing what was submerged into the light.