Revised from 2018.
A fire from earth’s core
breaks free now and then
to remind us of what is possible
beyond our own capacity.
Comes to the surface
through generations of old stone.
When it catches anything,
it burns everything.
We stare into it,
offer it fear and faith.
Name it for a goddess or god,
curse it as an evil,
flee it and photograph it
and tell stories of
its swift re-creation of the land
it seizes, the ocean it boils.
On the horizon, its glow announces
the emergence of the central fire.
as the world is made new
in a fashion we cannot replicate.
No wonder we gave it a name
brimful of a divinity all its own.
Dark Matter 
July 25th, 2023 at 8:38 pm
Came across this, and it is timely. Here in Bicol at the southern part of the Philippines, Mount Mayon Volcano is spewing bits of its innermost joy and sorrow, causing chaos to the folks who lives down its slope. Such a beautiful sight especially at night but dangerously beautiful her essence of her true self is, unfiltered and unmasked.