once pristine

Myth (continued)

• • •

Blasted by Sea’s icy brine, followed
by Land’s bubbling gases that hollowed
out an intestinal cindery lair,
Mount’s molten spew hardened. Hot air

in vortical whorls like a snare
noosed Wind from Sea sucking him rare
through tubed portals to lava chthonic
bowels. Like a sealed jinni, demonic

and vengeful, Fierce Wind fumed. Laconic
threats he puffed and hurled, but the tonic
of hope had saturated all.
Around Earth, each foe met his fall.