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WORD GAME

  

Red gouts of magma catapult and fall

with no more moment on a sterile plain

than waveforms that collapse inside an atom.

Tempests of liquid methane claim no lives,

Galaxies collide, no one is injured.

...

   

(For full text see the Kindle ebook The Nature of Things (Collected Poems) by Alan Marshfield)

   

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