Slope of Kīlauea

Kilauea from the air

My photograph

Slope of Kilauea

Confused doves fly into white walls

My complex condo living

Snow mist in the air

Sun cold

Like a character in Murakami's

Wind- up Bird Chronicle I

Pass through the wall of my well of

Debt and discontent

Soar  as I shall to the slopes of Kilauea

Spewing*

What better for a poet to do

Spew words as imagination grows into

Reality

Where my lover sleeps there on the

Slope of Kilauea

Hot with lava

Flowing like a song into the

Pacific

--Jack 12/5/9

* Kilauea is Hawaiian for spewing.