Volcanic Menstruation
From the boiling fire,
rock flows,
then freezes.
First life pioneers paint the gray rock
with a palette of green,
eating the rock,
regurgitating the soil
which lays in wait for the first settlers.
From early soils
royal life takes root,
growing a community skyward,
inviting mobile life to live and flourish,
until the next boiling fire
cleanses all --
and a new world is born.
agd 2013
Written after watching a documentary on the volcanic activity which forms and renews life in the Indonesian Archipelago.
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