DAILY PHOTO: Red Rock Arroyo in Kyrgyzstan

Taken in Fairy Tale (Skazka) Canyon in the Summer of 2019

Blue in the Distance [Haiku]

the desert runs
all the way to the lakeshore,
where it - surely - ends?

Nine Miles Deep [Free Verse]

nine miles down
an old dirt road 
that runs the valley,

the road disappearing
before the pass,

fading into a footpath,
and then into a vague notion

in a rare turn of events,
i can see - but not hear -
the whitewater 
that's running back toward 
from whence i came,
and then on to a sea
in some distant country

i sit on a grassy hilltop,
feeling i'm far enough 
down the road 
to be at peace

Wading into the Flood [Kyoka]

floodwaters rise.
peacefully drifting
around the calves
of those in search
of things that float

DAILY PHOTO: Sunlight Floods the Valley, Dzongri Overlook

Taken in May of 2022 from Dzongri Overlook on the Goechala Trail

Kapok Tree [Haiku]

Taken at Lal Bagh (Bangalore) in 2021
sinuous roots
of the silk-cotton tree;
are they moving?