Translucent Sea | Kazemakase Literature Club

I broke a glass.
I only bumped it against the edge of the sink, yet it broke with surprising ease.

As I picked up the shards, my fingertips brushed against a memory.
—You know, the sea rounds out the sharp edges.

My older cousin said that as she crouched on the beach.
She would pick up small green and light blue fragments and drop them into her straw hat.

Sea glass. They say it was once just a broken bottle.
Tossed by the waves, it loses its sharp edges and takes on a frosted, glass-like texture.

"Look, if you do this." Green light ignited at the fingertips of my cousin as she held it up to the light.
Even though it was translucent, I couldn't see through to the other side. A small, translucent sea.

At the end of that summer, I threw cruel words at her.
I haven't seen her since.

I wonder if there are some shards that never become rounded, no matter how much time passes.

A small tin sits in the back of my drawer.
It contains the green fragments my cousin shared with me that day.

I took them out and held them up to the window light.
Even now, I still couldn't see through to the other side.

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