ROMANCE

Are you in it for the diamonds or are you in it for the whole package — the sinking crush of tectonic plates, blue boron squeezed and pushed through cracks in the rocks, up and up, the magmatic depths of the earth erupting, 1 billion years of a fluid growing into a solid, hot as hell, kyanite compacted in carbon, trapped together like prisoners in this hard planet’s brittle crust, up and up and still up, time in a geologic sense?