A Short Primer of Stones
Granite; dark with quartz
and royal with feldspar
polished with stars and ghosts
its brother Marble
cool with drops of scented water
proud for veiled eyes
Chalk; full of dead white fish
rings of old life
Slate for a roof under Northern rain
Jade for a burned queen
hot and stripped of arms
A cycle of rock, an old crag
shouting through the mist.
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