DAILY PHOTO: Rainy-Day Views from the Star Ferry, Hong Kong

Day’s End [Haiku]

the ferry docks
as the sun sets:
exit to darkness.

The Big Drift [Haiku]

downriver drift;
ferries & fisherman cross
without collision.

DAILY PHOTO: Ferry on Linganamakki Reservoir, Monochrome

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Typhoon Trap [Rubāʿiyāt Stanza Variation]

Trapped on the island by typhoon.
 It's evening dark, though at high noon.
  The waves are wild and still rising.
  So, ferries won't be running soon. 

The few streets there are lie silent,
 but - seaside - the winds whip violent.
  We hide inside a bungalow,
  and hope it's fixed firmer than my tent.

One 's always where it's most remote
 when they cancel all ferryboats:
  where there're too many thoughts to think,
  and few distractive antidotes.

DAILY PHOTO: Backwaters Public Transportation

Taken on July 4, 2014 in Kerala

Taken on July 4, 2014 in Kerala

This is the equivalent of a city bus in the Keralan Backwaters. These boats are loaded with people and cruise from pier to pier, picking up and dropping off local passengers. The houseboats give them a wide berth as they tool about much more quickly. However, because they make frequent stops, we were in a leapfrog match up with them in which we would pass them at the dock and then they’d pass us in motion, and so on.

DAILY PHOTO: Hudson River Traffic

Taken in the summer of 2007

Taken in the summer of 2007