morning carbon leaves the mouth as foam
It touches the glass, becomes a small bright bead, and forgets whether it was air or ink.
depth 00 / dawn foam
a carbon day underwater
tanso.day
charcoal, kelp, shell, ink, breath, sediment — one impossible day rising through tea-colored water.
depth 11 / tidebook
noon writes itself in graphite kelp
Brown-black minerals feather into soft diagrams; each arrow curls like seaweed in a lab notebook.
the shell keeps a sepia record
Calcium rooms hum under old aquarium light while trapped dots orbit like plankton around a carbon ring.
depth 24 / reef archive
acetate label
carbon changes costumes: fossil leaf, bath bead, tea stain, shell whisper.
retro tide mat
Checker shadows slip beneath acetate, misregistered by the tide.
charcoal relic
A smudge remembers the seabed before it remembers the flame.
depth 40 / graphite night
by midnight, carbon is only a memory with bubbles leaving it.
The dark pool rests. The day loosens its shell, its ink, its breath, and lets every bead rise beyond the glass.