DAILY PHOTO: Puddle Atop Stone Mountain

DAILY PHOTO: Yellow Daisies

DAILY PHOTO: Willow & Yellow, Imperial City of Huế

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Photograph taken in the Imperial City of Huế, featuring a yellow outbuilding, a stone wall, and willow trees.

DAILY PHOTO: Grassland

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Photograph of tall grass in Winter at the Chaminuka Nature Reserve outside of Lusaka, Zambia.

DAILY PHOTO: A Conspicuous Absence

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Photograph taken on the Butch Kennedy Trail near Pendleton, South Carolina, featuring woods, sky, and a tree trunk that dominates the scene.

DAILY PHOTO: Closeups of Earth

Photograph of lesser smoothcap moss and prickly pear in Arabia Mountain Park of Stonecrest, DeKalb County, Georgia.
Photograph of Pineweed growing up through the cracks at Arabia Mountain Park in Stonecrest, DeKalb County, Georgia.
Photograph of pools in the granite at Arabia Mountain Park in Stonecrest, DeKalb County, Georgia.
Photograph of a long stemmed mushroom growing through the leaf litter in Stone Mountain Park.

Poison Ivy [Lyric Poem]

Poison Ivy, I think you know
that you will always be my foe.

I can slice your vine, pal-o-mine,
and still end slathered in calamine.

Because I must haul your corpse away,
and on my gloves your oils will stay —
waiting that unexpecting day
when I scratch some tender bit.

DAILY PHOTO: Blossoms After the Harvest

Photograph of a farm on the outskirts of Pai, Thailand -- post rice harvest but with blossoming trees.

Icarus Tree [Senryū]

a dead tree
stands above the living;
it didn’t pace itself.

Paper Beats Rock [Senryū]

sapling grows in boulder,
splitting it in twain;
paper does beat rock.