DAILY PHOTO: Eucalypti in the Clouds

Taken on November 11, 2018 in Vattakanal

Desolate Snow Haiku

boot crunch
‘a cloudless night,’
he concluded

 

old coat of snow
nary a track in sight
beauty abandoned

 

snow blind
trudging and slogging
pure torture

 

crust of snow
over dry powder
bone cold

 

drifting flakes
add a wedge wall
to a farmhouse

DAILY PHOTO: Nubra Valley

Taken in Nubra Valley, Ladakh in August of 2016

POEM: Dueling Grace of the Sun

The early morning sun warms the silvery shafts of a eucalyptus to a buttery yellow.

That seems a fine bit of grace,

until I see a hawk whose brown cowl is glowing gold in the same light,
as it perches watchfully on the one corner of a dilapidated building
that receives rising rays.

DAILY PHOTO: Tungabhadra River

Taken in November of 2013 in Hampi

DAILY PHOTO: Observation Hill, Amboseli N.P.

Taken in May of 2017 in Amboseli National Park

DAILY PHOTO: Kashmir

Taken in August of 2016 near Sonamarg

DAILY PHOTO: Kameng River at Dusk


Taken in May of 2017 at Nameri National Park in Assam

DAILY PHOTO: Winter Walk

Taken on the South River Trail in DeKalb County, Georgia in December of 2010.

POEM: The Destroyer



Mighty Fungi, the destroyer,
rending like a divorce lawyer.
There are no bonds you can’t dissolve.
It’s by your graces our world revolves.
Your rap is bad, but we all know,
the pile of stiffs would ceaseless grow,
if you weren’t breaking down the dead.

Plus, we love your work on beer and bread.