Conflagration

[busker]

can you see them 
writhe 
over their kin ..... I like the image
a Rat King's born  ........ or just 'a rat king born', without the apostrophe? With the apostrophe, you're making a point about how rat kings are born alone in the miry dark (more on the 'alone' in the next line). But rats are born in the dark generally, so what's the purpose behind singling out the rat king phenomenon?

alone in the miry 
dark ...............I like 'miry dark', but 'alone' is hard to swallow, given that a rat king is the opposite of something that's born alone.

Trying something different from my normal stuff, playing around with brevity.

I couldn't see a connection between the title and the content, maybe I'm missing something.
I think there's room to make this briefer...maybe have 'Rat king' as the title and cut out the 'alone'?