The Surfers at Sagres

The Surfers at Sagres

Photo: amaianos from Galicia, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons are a species all their ownamphibious, part Selkiegypsies of this watery realm               at the end of the worldworshippers of moon and tidesarriving in caravans, VW vanspiled high with boards and...
Sedona, AZ

Sedona, AZ

Photo: November Masinelli, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Once known for the colors of its cliffs,red sandstone contrasted with canyons of green trees, people photographtheir auras there now. I should have asked you to take a photograph with me,should have told...
Newbury, Vermont Village Common In a Time of Drought

Newbury, Vermont Village Common In a Time of Drought

Photo: redjar, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons She keeps failing to twirl a baton. She knows I’m watching her. She doesn’t look embarrassed. Her apparent composure confounds me. Some move through their lives at ease. She looks about five  years old. She doesn’t...
86 Levels Up

86 Levels Up

Photo by CEphoto, Uwe Aranas Level 24Level 48Level 59Level 86I was under the age of six,anaconda squeezing my mums handup the steps, we were insideone of the silver twin skyscrapersThe Petronas TowersI protested against goingdue to my intense fear of heights,I could...
Colmar Tropicale Trail

Colmar Tropicale Trail

Photo: Peter coxhead, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons After getting off the winding corkscrew roadsurrounded by wild packs of zigzaggingBukit Tinggi jungle trees,Paji parked and carried on daytime walking throughthe French-themed resort with my parents and II can...
American Visionary Art Museum

American Visionary Art Museum

The building itself seems amusedby the idea of a straight line.Mirrors wink.Tiles grin.A giant wind-up figure pauses,mid-thought.Inside, a bicycle made of spoonsleans confidently against nothing.A visitor laughs,then stops, unsureif laughing is allowed.It is.Paintings...