I.
Clearer the land below
…………crushed-velvet emerald
…………………..& gold
forest brocade
Then veiled
…………then shrouded
in clouds
clouds below
blinding early Light
clouds above
blinding
II.
clearer, nearer
Flat earth
…………dull mirrors of
……………………..rice fields
Brown streams
…………broad rivers snaking
…………………….carved canals
Waters flooding &
…………lapping
……………………around homes
City stumbling
…………through mud to
…………………….muddy waters
Laced by
………..roads, bound
…………………..by bridges
Clouds below
blinding
azure sky
shredding
clouds above
light
III.
Sometimes dryer land
…………fractured by valleys
…………………….shadowed by
clouds
clouds below
thick
blinding light
above
intense
blue sky
clearer
blinding
IV.
Indigo-
………….deep azure
……………………above
Deep indigo-
…………azure below
…………………..silk waled
with clouds…
No speck of terra
…………land…soil…earth
Just indigo
………….just azure
& sometimes
………..white
V.
Heavy colors
…………on the
……………………horizon
& nearer
Volcanic mounds
………….gouging the earth
…………………….into dunes
blue opaline ocean
VI.
Descending
………..smothering clouds
…………………..above us
Azure below
…………rippling between
…………………….heaving clouds
nearer
Crushed marine silo
…………splashed with
…………………..white dissolving
Muddy patches
nearer
clearer
Then below us
…………rough, dry
……………………lava red, ashen grey
nearer
clearer
Beneath our wings…
nearer
clearer
nearer
…beneath our feet
