NaHaiWriMo 2026 Week 3 Geological / Terrain

 

15. ABYSS

always

alongside the climb

the drop

*

the edge –

is this dizziness

terror, or lure?

16. CANYON

Kings Canyon –

deep narrow walls 

frame the sky

*

among stones

on the canyon floor

tiny plants

*

exploring ‘canyon’ –

I decide not to go deep

into metaphor

17. CRATER

abyss, canyon 

deep holes in the earth –

and now crater

*

quiet crater –

this ancient caldera

overgrown

*

18. FJORD

fjord photos –

deep blue cold to long for 

in this heat wave

*

19. DUNE

new and strange 

those books at first –

too soon too much

*

little kids 

rolling down the sandhills

over and over

*

back from the edge

a hollow in the dunes –

you and me

20. BASALT

Google explains:

fine-grained igneous rock

dense, dark-coloured

*

I live (in or on)

this ancient caldera –

its basalt floor 

*

I walk around

on the same dark rock

that lines the ocean

21. MARSH

don't play there

said parents: danger –

we sneaked out