Quarantined Quartz

Little pebble, sparkling with flecks of quartz, unique among unique peers, tumbles free in the riverbed. Until a filthy hand reaches down, plucks her, dries her out, rolls her 'round and 'round in preluded dust. So contaminated, she must drown under a mechanical Cascade, rest inside glass panes, a still pond, without peer upon an outcrop…