Potential Titles: Rocks [category]

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See Potential Titles: Rocks - Pretty Ones [category] for gemstones and decorative rocks.


Alabaster:
The portico hung o'er a flight of alabaster - Rufus Dawes "Marriage" [Graham's Magazine v.XIX no.5, Nov. 1841]

Walking through a forest filled with alabaster heads - Oliver de la Paz "Dear Empire [these are your temples]"

Darkens with alabaster and mahogany - Ellen Hinsey "Epistle"

Highways like ribbons of alabaster - Hsieh Hui-Lien "Prose Poem on the Snow" transl. by Burton Watson

Anthracite:
Against the scintillant anthracite of space - Timothy Donnelly "Hymn to Life"

Apatite:
An apatite translucency of winter sky - Claire Millikin "Rock, Paper, Scissors"

Asbestos.

Ashlar:
Ashlar whereon the gales might drum - Thomas Hardy "The Old Workman"

Asphalt.

Asteroid.

Basalt:
Little rutilant stones sunk in black basalt - Aldous Huxley "Behemoth"

In sable trammel, behind her basalt door - E.M. "The Lathe of Morpheus: A Dream Song/A tribute to B.C. from E.M."

Uncurled in a basalt crack below spruce - Keith Taylor "The Guest Cabin"

Nestled in a bowl of basalt and blueberries - Keith Taylor "Let Them Be Left"

Bedrock:
Giant feet grounded deep in bedrock - Jenny Blackford "Power Men"

Rises from bedrock hematite - Claire Millikin "The Incest Doll"

Lie quiet as bedrock beneath - Tracy K. Smith "Ghazal"

Slammed his second fist into the bedrock of the sea - Gretchen Tessmer "Hey Man, Nice Shot"

Boulder.

Brick.

Brimstone.

Calcite:
Built a calcite beehive tomb - Eric Ekstrand "Family Solo"

Cement.

Chalk.

Cinderblock:
Built of cinderblocks and barbed wire - Paul Park "Ragnarok"

Cinnabar:
Cinnabars where the flame burns purest - Chris Dombrowski "Trimmings"

a reduction of mineral cinnabar - Jena Osman "Mercury Rising (A Visualization)"

Spoons of jade mixing magic cinnabar - Pao Chao "In Imitation of 'The King of Huai-nan'" transl. by Burton Watson

Coal.

Cobble/Cobblestone.

Concrete.

Feldspar:
Fireworks in fields of feldspar and lace - Bruce Boston "Surreal Fortune"

Flint.

Fossil.

Geology.

Glass.

Granite.

Gravel.

Gypsum:
Hiding among the gypsum flakes - David Bowers-Mason "Phrogger"

Hematite:
Rises from bedrock hematite - Claire Millikin "The Incest Doll"

Keystone:
The keystone of his airy bridge - George MacDonald "A Hidden Life"

Lava.

Limestone.

Lode:
Concealing a lapiz lode of heart - Mouna Ammar "The Meaning of Unpacking"

Loadstone/Lodestone:
The loadstone beckons to the long needle - Yang Fang "The Joy of Union" transl. by Burton Watson

Magma:
Over plains of magma murk - Mike Allen "La Donna del Lago"

Solo of magma, baritone of fantasia - Diane Mehta "Landscape with Double Bow"

Crawling baby of magma and water - Khadijah Queen "Erosion"

Marble/Marbled/Marbles.

Meteor.

Mica:
Mica embedded in a mattress of slate - Mary Jo Bang "Hotel Incognito"

gold against the mica sky - Didi Jackson "Fall"

Sparkled scatter of mica and stone chips - Amy E. King "Digging Potatoes, Sebago, Maine"

Millstone.

Mineral.

Moonrock:
A mesh of moonrock's lapis soup - Amy King "The Moon in Your Breath"

Pebble.

Petrify.

Pitchblende:
hard white bones shot with pitchblende - Amanda Gafford "Tigerlily"

Pumice:
The whited pumice of the storm - Walter S. Percy "The Blizzard"

Quarry.

Rock.

Salt

Sand.

Sandstone:
With a sandstone faith still worn - Rebecca G. Biber "Artichoke"

Through the canyons of sandstone and shale - Ansel Elkins "Native Memory"

sandstone bones are left long under sage - Jake Skeets "Sonoran Desert Poem"

Shale.

Slate.

Stone.


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