two

One leads to another.
Photo: At a restaurant, Wairarapa, New Zealand

gift, fist

Maybe open, maybe not.
Photo: On a branch, Maine

cool wood

If I lived here, I would sit on the cool wood
and take away the curtains, table
and the object on the sill.
Photo: Wairarapa, New Zealand

occupy

My rent will soon go up about 20 percent.
The laundromat on my street will not renew their lease. Shall we occupy our street?
Photo: Rental payment record, Tsimshatsui

rash, extreme, generous

In order to read poetry, Virginia Woolf writes
in 1926, one must be in a rash, an extreme,
a generous state of mind.
Photo: Plant life in the Philippines
Text: From the essay, On Being Ill

make a reason

Make a reason to celebrate.
Photo: Opening of exhibition, Japan
Text: I celebrate xtn's birth and friendship.

hand here

I like the touch of the hand. Here,
the handmade neck.
Photo: Shop window, Wairarapa, New Zealand

low and open

I like sitting on the floor
and I like tables low too.
It all feels larger, roomier.
Our thoughts, our breath, more open.
Photo: Dining room table, World Friendship Center, Hiroshima

trance

Photo: On a window, Maine

shall be well

You will have pain and affliction, trouble and strain and doubt. But you shall not be overcome and all shall be well.
Yes, all shall be well, and all will be well, and thou shall see thyself that all manner of things shall be well.
Photo: Buddha on Lantau Island, Hong Kong
Text: Julian of Norwich

morning dew

Wet birds singing.
Photo: By a coast (for Bert2)

thy neck

Once the folds of a neck.
Now something to be dusted.
Photo: A hunted animal's body in a trophy room, Maine

tennis desk

I have loved ping pong, table tennis, and we have kept such a table ready in the basement. When I see this one outdoors, my love for sport and for word comes forward:
wouldn't the table make a great big desk?
Photo: Lantau Island

sometimes I want a forest

Dark and deep.
Photo: Near Carterton, New Zealand