drive out

3 hour drive out to bath ranch dead house.
fire on the way.  filling a whole half of sky, like something from war.
then clear skies, all the stars.
then a hill, and a redder reflection in the clouds beyond.
deep deep red fire, glowing soft but wide.
cresting the hill, wondering what fire makes that shade of light.
then blinking.
the moon.
a full minute later it was finally the orange of the giant fire.
a strip of black cloud in front like a belt, several layers of black behind.
i could not understand how that object, the moon, was not sitting here, in the fields, on the earth.
it was surrounded by clouds on both sides.  how is that possible?