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Krakatoa

Lava molten moving

Slowly eating

Burning burying

Rolling down

The hot black

Igneous

Grey smoke plumes

Twirling trembling

Orange and red

Crackling surfaces

Silent destruction

The ground shakes

Like a snail

It moves.

Violent and massive

Fearsome fire

Cataclysmic 1883

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