DAILY PHOTO: Tatev Monastery

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DAILY PHOTO: Ambiguous Hour, Laajalahti

Is it sunset? Sunrise? Both? Neither? It was like this for an hour or so when I was in Finland during the Summer. Never getting fully dark.

Post-Harvest Mars [Haiku]

hazy valley:
stubble fire smoke glows like
a Martian landscape.

DAILY PHOTO: Clouds & Mountain, Mt. Shani

“Spring Rain” by Natsume Sōseki

Spring rain:
a walk amid
wet willows.

Ripples [Haiku]

rocking boat,
splash heard behind --
spin to see... ripples.

DAILY PHOTO: View from a Cliff, Yehliu

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The Flood [Haiku]

muddy streets,
after the flood:
bare feet squish.

“Glass was the Street – in Tinsel Peril” (1518) by Emily Dickinson [w/ Audio]

Glass was the Street - in Tinsel Peril
Tree and Traveller stood.
Filled was the Air with merry venture
Hearty with Boys the Road.

Shot the lithe Sleds like Shod vibrations
Emphacized and gone
It is the Past's supreme italic
Makes the Present mean --

What I Know about Beaches [Free Verse]

On a sandy beach,
I think of each grain
of sand as being
the same.

But on a pebble beach,
Each stone has its own
color, texture, size,
and shape.

It's made me second guess
What I know about beaches.