Clouds like molten lava

Monday was wet, windy,

wild in a single word.

Although wild suggests the possibility,

nothing more, nor less,

that it can be tamed.

And humankind has failed to tame them,

the elements that make this world

so beautiful, welcoming and scary.


Tuesday was calm and almost cloudless

in the north.

As the city was approached 

low clouds hugged the horizon,

beginning to welcome the sun.

Still below the horizon

the star of this system reacted with clouds, 

to produce a roiling and brilliant image 

of molten lava to the east 

of the city of volcanoes.