Soundless Explosions

The camellias bloomed like a scarlet explosion
against glossy green leaves and grey explosions

of spring thunder, lightning, hail on the window
rattling like tiny white artillery explosions

all fueled by south-facing glimpses of sunlight,
distant and continuous thermonuclear explosions

reverberating from the center of our annual orbit
third-generation child of the universal explosion

driving the sap from the root to the flower
buds bursting open in soundless explosions!