How to tell of that Easter weekend on the Big Island?
on the newest of islands where lava swept into the sea
to see it at night
the most stable thing you can think of
stone
the most solid immovable permanent thing in liquid form moving past you coughing orange oceans of steam into the sea tide playing
washing
lapping
dousing
losing
no loss
gaining
no gain
all in movement in motion slow irrevocable how to explain
it changes you it shakes you to the core it shows you that no thing is permanent that all is in flux
it shows you what a raft it all is as this island and all others tear slowly away from the hot spot one inch a year
floating
that no physical thing in the universe is permanent in its present form that all is transmutable that yin and yang kaleidoscope each other all is fleeting
as it should be
just different from what we were taught
illusions fall away
just as they should