I didn’t expect to meet you in Guilin My Rainbow Serpent, My Earth Mother, But you were there In Reed Flute Cave, With animals and reptiles And all those things You stored in the Dreamtime. Pools of cool water, like mirrors, Reflecting your underbelly.

Oodgeroo Noonuccal (Kath Walker)

If I have taste, it is barely for anything but earth and stones

Arthur Rimbaud, 'Hunger'

The Lord is my rock, my fortress, my deliverer, my God, my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield&the horn of my salvation, my stronghold&my refuge, my saviour; you save me from violence. “In that day,”declares the Lord, “you will call me ‘my husband/spouse’; you will no longer call me ‘my master.'"

2 Samuel 22:2-3 --- Hosea 2:16

Dark sallow, two rocks，grotesque, useless，despised & abandoned in our time... ...Everyone has virtue，everything seeks its partner. The old man fears rejection by the young. Turning I ask the rocks，"can you accompany an old man like me?" They cannot speak, but promise we will be three friends.

白居易《双石》 Bai JuYi, A pair of rocks 826 AD