On the language alone, this might be one of the most interesting pieces you've written yet. It's got a very relaxed, but somehow, still kind of quick to the point, feel going for it. Which I really like.

oh, I adore this. You bring this beautiful scene to life for the reader. I like the awareness that you have that you're writing from it, not about it. You seem to put a touch of seduction from this "dream." Great read, as always :) p.s. a typo in 'linguistc' needs the 'i' :)

I love where you go with this in S5 & S6. Your travels make for grand poetics! Thanks.

Your thunderstorm drenches my corner of the world with most welcome nutrients. :)

Marvelous turn of words here. You have nailed this island and returned me there feeling the heat, humidity, afternoon quick-approaching-quick-dumping thunderstorms - drives up and down through notches in tropical laden hills- and your last two stanzas make it so you - your essential rain of words!!

A veritable deluge of geophysical data to analyse and analogise...I have a question regarding ambiguity and neologistics :)

now...this is one poem that truly reflects the steaming nature of the burning rainforest. the visual stimulation is running wild, like a game of hide and go seek in the deep amazon, pointing out the things that arouse you...in some way or another. it does feel like a dream. a dream about a biology class dealing solely with things that intrigue. tons of heavy ideas and color-loaded canvases. nature is sexy isn't it? this is more than just a saucy number, but rather a beautiful one too as it could be perceived as innocently intimate or scorching. impressive as usual kw, this one gives the chance for some interpretation as well. a delicious, exotic apple.

Oh boy, is it hot in here or what? Hope you enjoyed lounging on the white Puerto Rican sand. It's totally beautiful there. But these words almost match Don's for tectonic activity. Let the rain fall, let the earth tremble...let the, uh...dang, close the curtains! They need some privacy in here. ;-)
~Chelle~

Thank you for letting us travel with you and for bringing the climate to us. smh

This piece appeals to both my creative and scientist minds. This may be my favorite of yours and of course another of which goes into my favorites. You must have been walking on the rainforest clouds in your ecstacy of writing!!

you take a place like Puerto Rico or you take an object, something that someone discarded along the way or took for granted and you happen upon it with fresh eyes and then you who know what to make of found objects such as this trip, you turn into art, which is given a new context and niche to which we find no problem to give our nod of appreciation.

if any one can make the boring subject of the effects of vulcanism uplift into an interesting poem, I am not surpised it is you, Kathleen

Brings to mind images of earth in shapes of flesh, very enjoyable.