Behold!
The white first fuse,
Potential Bound.
Watch the fiery light as it ignites,
Prometheus is released.
Witness white grow green
soon the fuse, the unseen
not shorter but stronger.
More imminent but longer
is the time when finally,
after the lively sparks have pushed (burned?) their way through the hard outer shell the explosion happens showering the landscape with itself,
living shrapnel,
until at last,
it is again
buried in the soil.
-Rob Eberhardt, ~1997