stonepicnicking_okapi

I had never heard of kyanite, but it's a pretty stone.

I read a little bit about it and was struck by the line: Kyanite occurs as elongated blades principally in gneisses and schists.

So I was thinking geologically, which led to writing a poem called a xenolith (which is named after the geological term 'xenolith' a fragment of extraneous rock embedded in magma or another rock).

its name from kyanos, Greek for blue, from dark to light
a mineral, its hues like ice
found principally in schists and gneiss
the many shades of blue of precious kyanite
cerulean like sea at rest, a calming sight
it forms in elongated blades
in clay-rich sedimental grades
an indigo like cloudless sky of fancy’s flight,
an indicator in the main
of deep burial of terrain
a sapphire of silken wings or cats’ eyes at night
used to trace metamorphic zones
a cobalt employed to reproduce artist’s sight
in different directions, these stones
form sprays of healing, grounding azure stalagmite