DAILY PHOTO: Gundamagere Lake from Makalidurga Hill

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Red Bug Orgy [Haiku]

two red bugs mate
on one side of a tree;
on the other: orgy

DAILY PHOTO: Makalidurga Cliffside

Taken on December 3, 2022 in Karnataka, India

Wasp & Ant [Haiku]

a wasp & an ant
converge on a cloying plant
blithe on each other

DAILY PHOTO: Makalidurga

Taken on December 3, 2022 at Makalidurga

I’ve Never Been Lost in the Woods [Sonnet]

I've never been lost in the woods,
though I've been lost so many times.
I've been lost in my neighborhood,
and I've been lost within my mind. 

You say the trees look all the same.
I say that's some speciesist shit.
No. I don't know the trees by name,
but that doesn't matter a whit.

I've never been lost in the woods:
lost means wishing to be elsewhere.
Lost is all about "woulds" and "coulds."
But I'm not lost if I don't care:

don't care I don't know this exact spot,
'cause I know precisely where I'm not!

Stampede [Free Verse]

Wildlife charges through the city
like the bulls of Pamplona,

a stampede of death 
from a river of life,

a river that flows turbulently,
crashing and slopping.

Nothing can falter before the stampede.
Each step must land solidly,
each step until one's last. 

Briefly Trumpeting [Haiku]

pink trumpet flowers 
densely clustered above;
under foot next week

Nesting Birds [Haiku]

nesting birds
unmoved by their reflected
doppelgängers

Where’d the Water Go? [Free Verse]

the lake is low.
where'd the water go?
i don't know...

but you can bet
squirrels aren't at fault.