DAILY PHOTO: Buddhist Centre, Negombo

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The Buddhist Centre in Negombo, north of Colombo in Sri Lanka, as seen from across the street.

“Glass was the Street – in Tinsel Peril” (1518) by Emily Dickinson [w/ Audio]

Glass was the Street - in Tinsel Peril
Tree and Traveller stood.
Filled was the Air with merry venture
Hearty with Boys the Road.

Shot the lithe Sleds like Shod vibrations
Emphacized and gone
It is the Past's supreme italic
Makes the Present mean --

DAILY PHOTO: Flowers w/ Church, Budapest [Felsővízivárosi Szent Anna templom]

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Bull Street [Senryū]

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

DAILY PHOTO: Two Tuks and a Billboard: A Bangalore Street Scene

Taken in September of 2013 in Bangalore

POEM: The Street Sleeps

Litter skitters down the street,
stopping beseechingly at my feet.
No one likes the morning chill.
So this raucous street is now still.
Still but for the will to wake.
Shhh! Let it sleep for goodness sake.