glass eye

After all these years, the joy

of seeing remains.

Photo: Window and reflection, New Zealand

lucky serve

Today we bought a car
and then got served dim sum
at table 8. It'll serve us well.
Photo: At China Town, Palmerston North, New Zealand

swim and wind

Almost swimming, 
these trees.
Photo: Windblown in Wellington

i love rebels

Photo: Outside an op-shop, Masterton, New Zealand

soon green blink

The person whose hair is around
the white plus sign will visit 
soon. That green circle
will blink soon.
Photo: With P. at HKPU

steak

We're mostly vegetarian, but once
in a while, I feel like a steak.
Photo: Tree stump

chapel

Another Sunday today, and I 
remember this day in a chapel 
in a city by the sea,
not a Sunday.
Photo: In Pokfulam, Hong Kong

tilt

Oh, how we love things
with a tilt. Words. Places.
Photo: In Titirangi, New Zealand

angel naan

Last Friday was this person's birthday.
She looks like an angel here.
The naan an edible halo.
Photo: P., age 15 and one week

happy gardens

A friend's book on garden designers 
and their personal gardens was a finalist 
for an award by a gardeners' guild. 
Grow grow grow, book, 
may you live a beautiful life.
Photo: Garden in England

an extra circle

I like how the Addams Family 
encourages people to play 
with their food.
Photo: By P, at her 15th birthday dinner

dare

Today I listened to a valedictorian say 
'be afraid of not changing' and I
have come to like to shoot the sun.
Photo: Eastbourne, New Zealand

evening

Ah, the evenings
of early summer.
Photo: Eastbourne, New Zealand

hymns

Numbers waiting 
to be sung.
Photo: At a church in England

happy tail

One of our cats has taken
to chasing her own tail.
I think she's happy.
And the tail has a dent.
Photo: Mural, Eastbourne

grow

The garden has been planted.
It's open for the growing.
Photo: Sign, Eastbourne

sturdy clips

I like clips of different kinds,
and have saved the plastic ones 
my Oma used years ago. 
As sturdy as she was.
Photo: Clothespeg as bookmark

h h h

It's suddenly hot and heavy
and humid, and all we wanna
do is sleep.
Photo: G at The Louvre

summer hum

It's summer here, 
and the heat is humming.
Today I walked by this word
within the word 'police'.
Photo: For the parking space
outside Carterton Police Station

shelter

This is the old shelter at a train stop. Wooden walls and sliver-windows, it stands, locked, next to the new shelter of glass and metal. When I asked a young girl which one she likes better, she said the new one, because it's shiny. 
Photo: At Solway Station, Wairarapa

story

Maybe I am as curious

as these children may be.

Photo: In a small town in England