Arenal on Flickr – Photo Sharing! January 2002 In the day’s last light I watch a birthing,life delivered in tremors, groans, contractions.Molten streams spilled down obsidian thighs.Steam plumes blanketed the harbor basin,fingers curling up to catch new life in cupped hands.Mother earth giving birth to herself. April 2010 Night over the gulf delivers a fireball, explosion, tremors — this basin a cradle for death.A black plume rises, jetting thick and fast as a severed artery, the fountain of our shame.Appointed caretakers wring their hands and bickerlike siblings trying to pass off responsibility for a senile parent.Will our minds prove nimble enough to save us from our ingenuity? June 2010 In…