Distant Volcano At Dawn

Explore #21 - 01.06.2009 & Explore Front Page

 

O Wave God who broke through me today

Sea Bream

massive pink and silver

cool swimming down with me watching

staying away from the spear

 

Volcano belly Keeper who lifted this island

for our own beaded bodies adornment

and sprinkles us all with his laugh—

ash in the eve

mist, or smoke,

on the bare high limits—

underwater lava flows easing to coral

holes filled with striped feeding swimmers

 

From Burning Island by Gary Snyder (1930 - )

 

Looking out over Paraparaumu and the Tasman Sea to Mt Ruapehu in the distance (over 200km away) at dawn on a crisp Autumn day.

 

Distant Volcano Series #1 - Best Viewed Large On Black

 

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