Muddy clay half fluid <br />Smelling faintly of watery origins <br />Goes to the fire comes back a stone <br />The magic of the Metamorph Vitrification <br />Filmed with sand paste <br />Goes again to the fire <br />Comes back a gleaming jewel <br />Whose form and color <br />Will last ten thousand years<br /><br />Stewart McKenzie<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/landscape-11-mud-metamorphoses/
