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?

 

 

 

 

 

 

Selected Writings:

 

 

YELLOWSTONE HOTSPRINGS

 

WINTER WONDERLAND ?

 

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