Scour + Scourge (tanka)

A thick orange sky—
Particles falling like ash.
The wrath of Vulcan unhinged—
Scours and scourges the country.
We—the gods of destruction.

What I’m Reading:

“… this particulate matter, 20 times smaller than the diameter of a human hair, can be particularly harmful to our lungs and is being carried down into the state along with the smoke from the Canadian wildfires.”

— Dr. Jeremy Weinberger, Tufts Medical Center / The Boston Globe