About the Writer
Renee Milligan, Assistant Fluco Beat Editor
Renee is a level four journalist who has worked as the Literary Magazine Editor for two years. She is currently a Yearbook Editor and an Assistant Fluco...
Volcano Season
November 10, 2016
Dripping orange leaves overflow cracked clay pots
fertilized by embers,
planted in ash.
Skies run with color.
Thorns paint gashes in clouds
whose white forms bleed,
smearing red in hasty retreat
past creeping vines of gray and black.
Liquid light blooms.
Red and yellow florets sparkle.
Growing, reaching.
Saplings shake their buried roots,
making grass and ground tremble
with fear well-founded as petals rain down.
Dancing over mountains,
tumbling into valleys,
they transform landscapes
into fields of flowers bursting with color.
Earth cannot run from fire’s dance of cherry blossoms.