raw and ugly sawed blankly through
the black green hillside of tumbledown
trees presaging landslides to come
slipping and slumming down on every
gambler who packs his ivory-colored heart
on the back of a public flirtation or
a private-jet barter for a smallish blue planet
careening through emptiness without
a driver its liquid center sloshing and
splashing like a fringe-festival flask in
the governor’s pocket tender and aquatic
fragile and pliant she will rise to her full
height one day and exact her molten revenge
(c) 2017, by Hannah Six
Image: Jim D Griggs, US Geological Survey
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