So Rock created stone in his own image
in the image of Rock created he stone
one gender created he stone
and Rock spit on stone
and Rock said unto stone
Split yourself into many
and cover the earth
and stone did so and
some were fiery, eruptive and flowing
some were grainy, coarse and wind-strewn
some captured animals and
desiccated their spirits
entombing their skeletons in outline forever
and some buried animals by their force
but most were hard and enduring
so while animals lived and died upon them
they persisted
through the ages
calcite, seared the blazing orb of the sun,
sodalite, painted the sea-reflected-into-sky,
selenite, tinted the colorless echo of stars,
gaspeite, dyed the skin of rain-bringing frogs,
rhodochrosite, tinged the burn of cherry buds,
hematite, glazed the grittiness of soil,
malachite, hued the verdant of pasture lands,
and dolomite, banded the blood of human flesh,
until one day Rock called them home,
all his creation
strip-stippled into the stains of the rainbow
and shining over a barren earth.