liquid metal
shape-shifting silver seas
ribbed and rippling
tiny crabs
writing alien script
high tides erase
turquoise water
bound by brown patches
a tidal maze
tiny limpid fish
braver than your bigger peers
drifting as they dart
tsunami swamped
moments under water
forever changed
misshapen lumps of dead coral rise from the sea-shore
miniatures of the karst monolithic islands of coastal southeast asia
a tiny archipelago facing constant nightmare tsunami
Taken in December of 2014 in Naiharn, Phuket
a murder of crows harasses a hawk,
out to steal the meal that wriggles in its talons.
the hawk giving its all to fighting crow will lose its squirming prey.
no crow is match for a hawk,
but no hawk is match for the murder,
and so all birds go hungry.
Taken in Kodaikanal on November 12, 2018
Taken on November 11, 2018 in Vattakanal
Taken on November 12, 2018 in Kodaikanal
The early morning sun warms the silvery shafts of a eucalyptus to a buttery yellow.
That seems a fine bit of grace,
until I see a hawk whose brown cowl is glowing gold in the same light,
as it perches watchfully on the one corner of a dilapidated building
that receives rising rays.
