hum, city, hum

              we ask
          is walking and freedom the same thing?
                      the way we step
        into stride
                  with the soft scissors of our metronome arms
                      sometimes we hum
Photo: Tarragona, Spain
Text: The opening lines of the poem 'the act of walking'
from the series 'hum, city, hum', published in the book, 
Delicate Access (2004)

effortlessly

                                             Rain falls like flowers at my feet,

runs down the window of a parked car, effortlessly. I turn the

corner, every road has the shadow of a season I once loved.

Photo: Street scene, Hong Kong

Text: Opening of the poem, Sheung Wan, 3 a.m.

from the book, Something Beautiful Might Happen (2010)

winter tree

Draw me a winter tree, the infinite delicate, silhouettes of black rivers and visible fingers, make a large winter head 

full of naked elegant thought.

Draw me, draw me a winter tree, with hundreds of muses reaching for the altar tip, knowing that below, roots make 

a mirror of this.

Photo: New Iberia Station, seen through train window, Louisiana
Text: The poem was published in 'Delicate Access', 2004