obsidian tender square we were forged in the belly of volcanoes following a rift in tectonic shift, the earth’s violent realignment. friction invited the rapid blackening of lava, cooling it to touch. you and i, besotted with silica & hardened by circumstance. nothing quite prepared us to meet the essence of this element—the glass that tears through truth. this stone is tool, this stone is weapon, this stone is mirror: do you see that i am with you in the everlasting now? 210913 what's it to you? who go blather from