#kilauea

#kilauea

Land is one of those things that can disappear even as you see it. It falls away beneath you, becoming merely the ground under your feet, because you're thinking about where you're going, or a place slowly blurring out of focus from the airplane window. Land is a primal word, primordial even, like lava. And it is a loaded word if, say, you're Indigenous or descend from a people whose land was taken from them.

Lava began to overflow the south vent about 3:30 a.m. local time, with fountaining from both vents within the volcano starting just 10 minutes later.