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A black extrusive, collared for a crime
Won't flow, or run, or put up any fight.
When faced with doing geologic time,
Repeat offenders recognize their plight.
The good cop gives LIP service to concern
"We know you've had these outbursts in the past."
Bad cop cuts in, "A poisoner's return:
The mercury's more widespread than the last."
They double down- he's in the hot spot now,
"The plankton and the magnetite are slain
Effusive toxic volitiles are how
We know biotic crash occurred again."
   Defiantly, he scans the gloomy sky
   Where shines his cometary alibi.

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White walkers turn the maple leaf to ice

A glacial edifice, three miles in height

Continuous, and ringed by edelweiss?

Or intermittent, phasing like a wight?

The sediment’ry basin, Hudson Bay

Has hollows which survived the glacial scours

So forty thousand years ago, they say,

The land had beaches, forest, meadow flowers.

A verdant corridor split west and east

The Hudson Bay was then an inland sea

Migration route for plankton, grass, or beast?

For many thousand years it was ice free.

   The Night King’s kingdom melted, split in two

   But when the Ice age deepened, it regrew.

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