Fits (this uncertain rock) into your hollowed hand.
Muskrat-skull rock, mauved in places as if bled.
Hole-pocked fossil rock. A cipher. Left behind
when ice plates receded. Continental sheets.
Ice on the move. Leaving what cannot cleave.
Topographies herded flat, wide as the weft of caribou hooves.
Hoof-heavy plumb of time (here and Baffin Island only).
Or volcano-spewed, dropped from the sky.
Primordial cool, old questions weight in your palm.