070720b

Earth burns

a new island barfs its way

out of the sea

011919b

corpse floating in
from the smoking island
Krakatoa

070318

Kilauea's
indigestion heartburns homes
black beauty

051418b

Kilauea
is my favorite volcano

I don't live there

060716b

streaming the smoke
misshapen mountain
peak

hot river slowly
topples trees
cools



Two reverse hay(na)ku.

052016b

riding a lithospheric slab
into the mantle
caught in an updraft
volcanoed out on the surface
where we started
just a few million years later
that was fun, Daddy,
do it again!

042016b

turned out human sacrifice
disagreed with the volcano god's digestion
the soothing goodness
of papaya and coconut
mango and pineapple
ahhhhhh
many fewer eruptions
a cleansing sulfurous steam
occasional red-hot stone footballs
isn't that better?