DAILY PHOTO: Hualien from the Mountains

DAILY PHOTO: Kaohsiung Music Center [高雄流行音樂中心]

White structure, lefthand-side foreground

Urban Jungle [Kyōka]

in a city park,
muscular baobabs &
wiry strangler figs
provide residences
for the fierce squirrels.

DAILY PHOTO: Cihou Fort, Kaohsiung

DAILY PHOTO: Scenes from Hualien

DAILY PHOTO: Taipei from the 101

Through the Gate, Gladly [Free Verse]

Gates remain
 long after the walls
    have fallen.

People pass through
 when they could just
    go around.

There's something to
 treading the path
    of ancestors,

Or maybe they just crave
 the claustrophobic
    squeeze.

DAILY PHOTO: Formosa Boulevard Metro Station, Kaohsiung

DAILY PHOTO: 85 Sky Tower, Kaohsiung

DAILY PHOTO: Scenes from Ximending