Many Worlds [Free Verse]

Fictional cities pile upon each other,

spreading like blood puddles 
until they spill into yet others
at their amorphous edges.

And distinction is lost --
homogeneity wins --

but that lysergic sadness remains.

DAILY PHOTO: Streets of Hyderabad

Taken on August 6, 2022 in Hyderabad

Utopian Limerick

The youth sought to forge a utopia,
but suffered a kind of myopia.
They built a grand city,
but the people were shitty.
That's how you make a gleaming dystopia.

Green City [Tanka]

a desert city
stretches green between
the mountains;
do people choose trees,
or do trees co-opt humans?

Bull Street [Senryū]

the bull doesn't feign stealth,
yet gets close enough to make
shoppers poop themselves

DAILY PHOTO: Patuxay Park Fountain

Taken in January of 2019 in Vientiane, Laos

Night Market [Free Verse]

in the chiaroscuro world
of the night market,
fruity colors blare in
orange,
green,
& 
yellow
between angular 
shadows

the sun is down;
the city is alive,
and soon the 
night market 
will be lively

DAILY PHOTO: Calcutta Chinatown

Taken in December of 2021 in Kolkata (Calcutta)

DAILY PHOTO: Central Canal, Indianapolis

Taken in Indianapolis in the Summer of 2011

DAILY PHOTO: Scenes from Ahmedabad

Taken in October of 2017 in Ahmedabad