EASY, FOLKSY COPPER

Copper, the Newborn

The ancients returned from the hunt and lit their fire.
Scattered around them were stones fallen from the mountain slopes.
One of them, touched with a greenish hue, slipped into the flames.
All night the charcoal burned hot, swallowing the stone.
When morning came, the fire had left behind something new.
Amid the ashes lay drops of red, glimmering like blood from the earth itself.
In that moment they understood.
Charcoal breathed greater heat into the fire,
and the fire stripped away the stone’s outer shell,
revealing the hidden flesh within—copper.
They did not treat this as mere accident.
Night after night they stoked the fire, cast in stones, and watched.
Each time, when charcoal and air united,
the red metal was born anew.
The wonder became a ritual, the ritual became a craft,
and the craft was passed from one generation to the next.
Thus the first smelters learned a truth:
what they tended was not only stone, and not only fire,
but the marriage of earth and flame—
giving birth to a new life: metal.

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