Creeping Forest

a sproutling grows
tiny shoots budding in the sparkling green expanse
thin cousins give way to towering fathers
a dense impenetrable thicket
behind that black wall
a gnarled shadow of yggdrasil collapses
crashing into the sand
empty roots no longer holding purchase
the sprout pushes aside black wet soil
breathing the cool rich air
forward into the dewy glitter
blazing toward the fertile frontier
the ozymandian titan crumbles
a pale methuselah
frozen by a hot medusian eye
enlils breath eroding its shattered corpse