watery mind

Many things swimming in my head.
Photo: Seafood restaurant window, Hong Kong

From South Africa: win, justice, win

The climate talks are on in Durban, South Africa.
I went to that city many years ago, when Mandela
had just come in and there was so much promise.
As I once wrote in a poem: 'win, this moment, win'.
Win, justice, win.
Always and please.
Photo: Hong Kong harbo(u)rfront
(when I think of Durban, I think of palm trees)
Text: Follow the climate talks here:
http://climatechange.oxfam.org.hk/

still and moving

Looks like a still life, but we're always moving.
Photo: Waitoke, New Zealand

lines of a palm

Palm reading. Radiating.
Photo: Tree, Tai Hang, Hong Kong

particularizing

The writer Robert Creeley has called the New Zealand sky 'particularizing' and I think he's bright and right.
Photo: Sculpture and sky, Wellington, New Zealand

drawing light

Roots above, across our walk.
Photo: Reflection off glass building, Mongkok

thick, thicker

Some days seem thicker than others.
Photo: Bamboo construction poles

brush

Once an animal, now
a bushy exclamation point.
Photo: Animal fur, location forgotten

around, every, support

Around the world, and every day, let us support another.
Text: Today is World Aids Day
Photo: Making peace cranes, Hiroshima

movable bundles

Early in the morning, there are many bundles like this along the street. A movable place of work.
Photo: Wrapped up merchandise, Hong Kong

may we grow

May we all grow.
Today is the birthday of a boy I know.
And the eleventh month since a birth of mine.
Photo: Plants at the Occupy Central site, Hong Kong
Text: Enjoy the day, S and I.

bright is my friend

A friend has died, and I send these flowers,
brightly, because she will always stay in my mind
that way: bright, alive, full, loving, kind.
Photo: Poinsettia, in Hong Kong
Text: For A and F, 1980-2011

heavy feet

Looks like the footstool has gone through,
into the sidewalk, into the earth.
Like someone's life was heavy.
Photo: New Orleans

a-changing

For the times, they are a-changing.
Photo: Lily pads dissolving, Texas