Pichincha Volcano High

PHOTOGRAPHER'S JOURNAL: 

The True Pichincha

Of course the cable had an end, 

but the mountain went on, 

the top, not top at all,

a plain of raw thatch,

empty spaces, 

distant outcrops,

under the cloud garden ,

and approaching storm; 

beneath its pall, 

they tell me, 

the true Pichincha.