THE FIRE GODDESS, PELE

In her sleep she twists and turns churning from the depths of the earth.

Her moon pearl liquid eyes look to infinity, her flaming rock oozes

as she wakes and rises from a long sleep.

With the changes of the tectonic plates she shifts from side to side

and Mauna Loa comes alive smoking and smoldering on the crater’s rim.

Flashes of fire and golden balls of hot rock explode in the blackened skies.

A thin line of red gushing molten lava pushes up and out

and down over her mountainsides.

Pele is alive and steaming still as she flows out into the ocean

doing her dance of destruction and rebirth.