Fuji In a Storm

August 19, 1992

Above the cloud line, Fuji's red peak, snow-capped, floats in the clear blue. Below the cloud line, red boils into black as the wind shrieks, and the storm thickens into a fist, hurling jagged lightning, raw as a rift in the mountain that lets out deep fire. Beyond this storm the clouds are white, flocking above green forests, watching the dance. between boulders a red leaf catches the evening rain