Yellowstone Hotsprings
Out of fissures
erupts or oozes
bubbling hot water
forged in earths cauldron:
ebbs and flows,
roils and gurgles.
Gargantuan
gray mud balloons,
erupt in slow motion.
Dragon hot springs
fling transparent
teardrops in your face.
Strange life forms
emerge
luminescent
limpid. Impossible
wild colors
jostle and shout.
Old rust,
vivid cerise,
brilliant turquoise,
atomic tangerine
emerge in patterns
of streamers and mats,
Formed by bacteria,
arcane and mysterious.
Some sulfurous, some
not. Some fermenting,
some not. Aligned and
reflecting prisms of light.
A black bird, unfazed,
braves the heat
to feed on what:
A strange life form:
an exotic thermophile
that thrives in a
mud furnace?
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