Color
transparency biased
impurity spread through
Quartz colorless, and
pink sometimes.
A sucker stuck
in a mountain.
Luster
what to give back
from a source.
Five bucks and change
From pearl to vitreous, variances
in a shell.
Streak
how to respond.
A snail leaves slow mucous.
Hematite sheds red-brown, the girl
at the fountain tosses hope,
walks away.
Hardness
make ourselves resist
abrasion. Buff the Buick,
boy. And again.
A fingernail is more so than gypsum.
Tenacity
reaction to being hugged too tight.
Standing straight against a heavy wind.
Superman presses coal into diamond.
Diamonds exit a powder.
There are no u-turns here.
Cleavage
some fold and fall away,
perforations on paper show you
where to break.
Dolomite down the middle, or otherwise.
Parting
divorce less determination.
An sudden split hoof makes
a head rear back in pain. Antimony.
Fracture
The ground, lattice of faults.
A small tear
in the flesh border.
Obsidian and inevitable facets.
Specific Gravity
Against water, what
is the weight?
The heavy of a spoon,
a rock,
a truth.
Minus your tare.
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