Michael Edwards

ERUPTION

ERUPTION

 

A vast empty landscape,

a basalt black vista,

a gnarled wizened tree

precariously clinging,

contorted and gaunt,

it’s very existence

soon to be broken

as plates start converging,

diverging,

then rupture

releasing

the hot bubbling lava  

encrusting

the bleak lonely landscape 

with fiery glow.