DAILY PHOTO: Rice Field in Rural Thailand

Taken in October of 2012 near Chiang Mai

Calming Chaos [Haiku]

water swirls
around smooth, wet rocks,
entrancing me

DAILY PHOTO: The Rushing Towaliga, High Falls State Park

Taken in 2013 at High Falls State Park, Georgia, US

Footprints [Haiku]

at the muddy shore,
reconstructing the scene
by reading tracks

Walk in the Woods [Tanka]

sunlight shines low,
half-hatching the forest floor
with autumn shadows;
i walk amid columns,
listening for absent birds 

DAILY PHOTO: Kazakh Wildflowers, Medeu

Taken at Medeu, Kazakhstan in August of 2019

DAILY PHOTO: Solitary Tree

Taken in Kaziranga National Park in May of 2017

The Churn [Free Verse]

On the shore
of angry seas

I hear the crash
of foamy waves,

but miss the 
crisp sudsy sizzle
that one hears
on a sunny summer day.

That nuanced note
is lost to the Churn

DAILY PHOTO: Courtesan’s Walk, Hampi

Taken in Hampi in November of 2013

Nowhere Station [Haibun]

The tawny landscape was tinged with the green that landlubbers take on in rolling seas or flatlanders show on a high mountain pass. The world looked like it was being viewed through shooter's glasses -- except for the azure infinity overhead that was unafflicted by sickly hues. Railroad tracks arced the length of the valley and it was a long valley - so long the tracks almost looked line like. The lack of other signs of humanity might have led one to believe it was the train to nowhere, but there was a solitary station in the middle of the valley and there can't be a station in the middle of nowhere on the way to nowhere. Or, can there be? Maybe, nowhere is like infinity, existing in larger and smaller degrees.


a single building
and a long covered platform,
but just i, waiting