Heat (2013)
“The bungalow stands on lava that flowed in 1926, when Mauna Loa was active. The landscape remains wasted. Everywhere, black rock covers the surface. The origin of the rock: pahoehoe flows that moved through as hot tongues of magma, burning ferns and grass and trees as they advanced, their surfaces quickly hardening to a plastic skin and then slowly cooling, steaming for months, becoming this black rock decorated with ripples and odd designs that look like piles of rope or strings of intestine o...r dark, hard pillows. Elsewhere the flows moved more quickly and tripped over themselves, piling up when they encountered obstacles and fracturing into jagged, sharp, boot-eating edges, ‘a‘a flows. To fall on ‘a‘a lava is to rip through denim and lacerate skin. ‘A‘a flows, even when cool, are best avoided.
I am avoiding them now, too weak with fever to explore, moving in and out of sleep with no sense of time, fighting a virus that appeared out of nowhere. I share the fever and the bed with my companion, her body as feverish as mine.MoreLess
I am avoiding them now, too weak with fever to explore, moving in and out of sleep with no sense of time, fighting a virus that appeared out of nowhere. I share the fever and the bed with my companion, her body as feverish as mine.MoreLess
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