rise and fall and sway

I have visited this home. 
Rows of corn swaying outside.
A baby swaying within.
Photo: In the Philippines

ditto

Silly portraits.
Photo: Taken by computer

hearing the living

I am back in the land of new zeal
where I hear many living things. 
Today: chicken, magpie, tui, fantail, 
persons, sparrow, cow, horse, fly, 
mosquito, duck, goose, cat.
Probably more.
I want to hear a plant.
Photo: Chickens, Philippines

with blue

I love seeing laundry in air.
In Hong Kong, it hangs out
in so many places, and today, 
mine has been under 
a very blue warm sky.
Photo: Along a lane, Hanoi, Vietnam

attend

Over the last few days,
I have been attending
more to birds, 
and I thank them.
Photo: A bird in New Zealand

home now, home soon

Tonight I leave on a jet plane
from one home to another.
Love everywhere.
Photo: Fun in the bath, New Zealand

see, play

As I said yesterday, 
use and play...
Photo: Mirror, New Zealand

playing

I have always loved to use things 
differently, playfully. 
Photo: Seat for a van, New Zealand

distance to self

I once wrote in a poem that 'I take a bath 
when the distance to myself gets too far' 
but I love a bath anytime, and just 
last night, I bathed.
Photo: Our home, New Zealand

love into the body

And now, we bring all the life and colo(u)r 
and love into our bodies.
Photo: At our table, New Zealand

food grown, food cooked

Yesterday, picked.
Today, to be cooked.
Photo: parsnip, carrot, potato...

friends and food

Today three friends who live on islands 
gave me food grown on, in, the land. 
Jackfruit, tomato, lettuce, carrot. 
And I think of Janet Frame 
and her is-land, was-land.
Photo: Food from our garden, New Zealand

soon

The people who were married on this day
of plenty of food and love and red
will soon have a child, and we
send very healthy blessings.
Photo: Plate at J and J wedding, USA

exit

For the next couple of days, I will
disconnect from the city a bit
and be with air, light, wind, trees. 
Photo: Our bathroom

pink and purple

I do not especially gravitate to the colo(u)rs pink and purple, and I especially do not like the prissy pastel versions, which seem to wilt. 
But how I love the pink receptacle placed here near the pyramids, and today, the gentle purple slate seen in the hills of Hong Kong.
Photo: Giza, Egypt

I'm not kidding

I love this quote, the "I'm not kidding" and the "making life more bearable" and the "Do it as well as you possibly can" and the line drawing, and today, as I talk about my art with an audience at a bookstore, I will remember this.
Photo/text: Received on Facebook

in a land I cannot

Today I walked around this
corner, in a land
whose words I 
cannot read. 
Yet a land I know.
Photo: Tai Hang, Hong Kong

hole and pool

I have been to springs of hot mud,
bubbling. This is not one of those pools,
though when I glanced through my files of images, 
I thought it was.
Photo: Location forgotten

102, 202

I love the lines of these numbers in this font, 
and I have a friend who chose his name
for the way the lines of those six letters
move with each other. 
Yesterday, we sang for the 202nd time.
Photo: Door, Wairarapa, New Zealand

sing one, all

Tonight, I will sing, we will sing, 
and all will be whole. The moon too.
Just as the curved white lines on this door 
say: 'ruyi' which means 'as you wish'. 
Photo: Door, Taipei

your very flesh

And your very flesh
shall be a great poem.
Photo: Cabbage tree, New Zealand
Text by Walt Whitman

rest

Rest, my dear friends. 
Be restful.
Photo: Mesh at a garden centre, New Zealand

among

Here we are, 
among friends.
Photo: Attic library, New Pacific Studio

3.8

Today is International Women's Day, and here is the back of a man's head - the turban probably washed by a woman, or girl.
Photo: Shepherd, India

here

X marks the spot.
That's where I am.
Kissing everything I love.
Photo: Sky over Hong Kong

p(l)ace

I have landed
in another 
place, pace.
Photo: Map of Masterton, New Zealand

two, too

Today, flying from New Zealand
to Hong Kong, I am going 
from one home to another.
Photo: Painted on street, Napier, New Zealand

looking at Earth

I will travel tomorrow,
and look at Earth through
my little airline window.
Still amazed with the world.
Photo: Pool, location forgotten

before the fall

These apples will fall
all by themselves.
Photo: In H's garden, Carterton, New Zealand

the verse in universe

Today we were together with poem, 
story and illumination, centered.
Photo: Storefront window, Masterton, 
Wairarapa, New Zealand

seeing a tree

I see antlers 
and Chinese characters.
Photo: Tree, New Zealand