Images of Iceland

Larval rocks spattered, 

Strewn across a landscape; 

Green moss, white snow, dwarf willow.

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Milky-blue water precipitating 

Silica to seal the porous rock, 

Steam rising as it cools in the icy air.

Fins of orca cutting 

The waters of the fjord; 

In Icelandic: ‘high-horned one’.

Snowy slopes of a volcano 

With a cap of ice 

Rising into a white mist of blizzard.

Cone-shaped hill with a crater; 

Looking from its edge, the lava field 

Like sea rolling down to ocean.

Green curtains of light shifting 

Across the night sky 

When cloud breaks beneath the North Star.