Yellowstone Caldera Poem by Jonathan ROBIN

Yellowstone Caldera



Yellowstone caldera sudden shivers
Earthquakes follow, swallow soil that quivers,
Lifting expectations once again
Life hangs by hair 'spite prayer as joy and pain,
Open, close, day, night, rich land, sand, rivers
Will merge as lava surge destroys spleen, livers.
Shakes and shudders fissures cause, park lain
Too long latent, dormant, well may rain
Outsize geyser skywards, dustbowl slivers,
Nova mushroom which itself delivers
molten lava magma which life withers,
climactic climate change ends human reign
endless ice age long blights harvest grain.

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(4 January 2009 revised 20 February 2013)
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