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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