Why Does the Hail Come?

A red column of flame from every chimney from every house of the city leapt up. The vapor of the flame became smoke, became bruise-blue, spread across the sky of the city and the cities. The smell of burnt hair, burnt bone, burnt heart spread across the sky of the city and the cities. The vapor of the bruise-blue burnt flame ascended! At the height of the sky, the vapor of burnt hearts became white and cold and congealed: became hail! Frozen tears! Toward the earth the hail runs time after time in search of the departed...