Hollow Horror
You left your hollow horror buried deep...
a hollowness unfathomed as we think
about the impact that your strike would reap
and change the path of life in just a blink.
So like a programmed missile, aim precise,
you blazed our Earth with death as you arrived.
For sure, this cataclysm would suffice
to form wide, hollow gaps where life had thrived.
Your wound, six miles deep and nine across
unleashed catastrophe that choked the air.
You spewed its contents, long-term albatross,
that suffocated Earth beyond compare.
Beneath the deepest layers of the Yucatán,
your hollow rests both under land and sea.
Through many million years- new life began...
rebuilt Earth species' timeline, globally.
Through five extinctions, life on Earth was stilled...
from hollowness to wholeness...emptied...filled.
June 12, 2018
~3rd Place~
Contest: Hollow
Sponsor: Anthony Slausen
Judged: 06/16/2018
The Chicxulub crater is an impact crater buried underneath the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico. Its center is located near the town of Chicxulub, after which the crater is named. It caused the fifth extinction of life 66+ million years ago during the time of the Dinosaurs.
Area: 9,826 mi²
Diameter: (93 mi)
Depth: (12 mi)
Impact diameter: (6.2–9.3 mi)
Age: 66.043 ± 0.011 Ma; Cretaceous–Paleogene boundary
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