Outbreak Breakout
written by: Stephen Kingsnorth
His route began with pot bound plant,
till terracotta ripped apart,
roots overcoming what held tight,
trapped filament now blooming tap.
But ten years on, Kent student days,
the ’Nam damn burst as napalm thrown,
his fellow students shot to ground,
its bloom blood red on campus green.
Continued archaeology,
he visited bloomed fossil coast –
with hammer struck the scree dropped rock,
revealed its ancient ammonite.
Thus so was his own life encased,
caldera visit, peering vent,
when flame throned pyroclastic flow
engulfed him, as with lava clothed.
As crust had cracked, he pumice stone;
would spirit break as childhood roots,
companions mowed, as ’varsity,
or fossilised, await struck blow.
NOTE:
Based on the Prompt – Bloom Through The Fracture
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