Guest Poetry Showcase! As I don't have anything new right now, though I'm filled with the urge to write, in getting a relative wealth of poetry shared with me in the past couple days, from several people.

Innocence and Inspiration

Sunrise like any other
But by sunset, everything changed
Pangaea splitting, making worlds
One moment, admiring the foliage
The next, spicy juice slithering down the wrist
One crisp clean bite

The avalanche starts leisurely
Pebbles skitter
Like foam before a wave
Then a wall of dust
Obscuring the leviathan
Boulders follow, dry rattling,
Bone gears clicking into motion.

A deluge of
Dust and ash and bone and verve.
A phoenix of particles
Complexification of thought
Architecture of collapse
And reformation

We may have lived before
But we weren't alive
Until after that
First bite.

-in this poem, note the arc from organic/life to inorganic and back, and layered along with that the cinematic zooming in and out from the allegoric moment in the opening and closing stanzas (that's my inner English major coming out)