Below the surface.
The crushing. The heating
stifles to mark out
the volcanic process.
Rocks are nearly squeezed
into the same places.
Pauli’s exclusion
principle is tested
and a slow cooling
starts. A crystal childbirth.
I am born, all pure.
Blue -
but I do not breathe.
I am a symbol
of high nobility.
A Roman king will
wear me –
to ward off harm.
My colour forms by
impurities that seep….
Mineral iron
and titanium seep
into oxide of
aluminium.
Blue
ligand-field effects
explain my hue. I cry….
I will be ground up
by a Persian one day.
A new medicine
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