DAILY PHOTO: Up & Down the Staircase, Shahi Bauli Stepwell

DAILY PHOTO: Gulab Vatika, Lucknow

PROMPT: COVID

How have you adapted to the changes brought on by the Covid-19 pandemic?

When someone unfamiliar enters my vicinity, I shout STRANGER DANGER! and form a cross of my outstretched index fingers that I point in their general direction.

But seriously, it’s just a vague memory at this point.

DAILY PHOTO: Ambedkar Memorial, Lucknow

DAILY PHOTO: Lucknow Clock Tower

DAILY PHOTO: Pakka Pul, Lucknow

“Balls” by Amy Lowell [w/ Audio]

Throw the blue ball above the little twigs of the tree-tops,
And cast the yellow ball straight at the buzzing stars.

All our life is a flinging of colored balls
to impossible distances.
And in the end what have we?
A tired arm -- a tip-tilted nose.

Ah! Well! Give me the purple one.
Wouldn't it be a fine thing if I could make it stick
On top of the Methodist steeple?

Quiet [Haiku]

pink blossom drops
in still morning air
beside a quiet lake.

DAILY PHOTO: Night Parade