sanctuary
is often disguised
as lava
boiling out of the sea
in poisonous fog
where hell breaks
the waves
surtsey
rose like this
the galapagos
the azores and canaries
and all of hawai’i
paradise found
rising wreathed in toxins
from the gaping seams
of tattered old
pangea
we barely waited for them to cool
before we landed
the old world had
its dangers too
Dark Matter 
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