Winter Springs [Haiku]

Photograph of the Beitou hot springs outside of Taipei.
an eerie fog
weaves through the trees:
Winter hot springs.

Night Sun [Haiku]

a full moon glows:
its color, pale yellow —
posing as the sun.

Where Trees End [Senryū]

where the trees end,
a colony grows in a
cancerous fashion.

Shadowlands [Haiku]

Photograph taken in the Toroko Gorge, Taiwan.
toward day's end,
the shadowlands creep
down the valley.

Trickling Creek [Haiku]

creek that trickles
through a stark winterscape —
days from riverhood.

Hidden Spring [Haiku]

Photograph of a bare branch and small cloud taken in Grant Park of Atlanta.
branches aren't budding,
but shoots are sprouting
under dead leaves.

Condemned [Free Verse]

Condemnation placard
Stapled to the church door
With the commanding tone
Of Luther’s notice.

The Condemned has stately bones
But its skin and viscera
Are in shambles.

Sun pierces stained glass,
Bathing dirty surfaces
With bright color,
But the dust and rat shit
Remain to create a
Miasma within.

One day a wrecking ball
Will make good on the
Condemnation.

Orbit [Haiku]

Photograph of two marble spheres in the Westside Park of Atlanta.
two bodies 
orbiting each other:
without distance, crash.

Shit Creek [Limerick]

Photograph taken in Budapest, Hungary at the City Park.
The sign said that one cannot swim,
But the chances of that were quite slim.
It looked like pea soup,
But the color of poop,
To swim up Shit Creek you'd have to be dim.

Reflection [Haiku]

Photograph taken on Margit Island in the middle of the Danube River.
statue gazes down
as if viewing the painting
by trees on water