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The lichen on the stone, mesh of green elastic, enmeshes the primal hieroglyph, stretches the scripture of the sea around the round rock.
The sun reads it, barnacles fade it, and from stone to stone the fish slither by like shivers.
Silently the alphabet goes on spelling out its sunken syllables along the immaculate hip of the coast.
On his loom the moss weaver goes back and forth, higher and higher, carpeting the caverns of air and water so that no one dances but the wave and nothing follows but the wind.