whittemore steps

Maybe thirty years ago, my parents bought a little land beside a lake. Slowly, finally, a house

was made. And hammocks, decks, steps.
This hemlock has lived here all along.Photo: Whittemore Cove, Maine

rosy food

Those two black shapes

almost look like keys to press.

Click. Instant rosy dinner.

Photo: A Queenslander house, Australia

night breathing

Trees in the night.

We breathe so softly.

Photo: Tree and gas/petrol station, Statesboro, Georgia, USA

cells of one very living thing

The annual June 4th vigil. Hong Kong.

Our one hundred and fifty thousand tended candles are like cells of one very living thing, in unqualified freedom.

Photo: Flowers near a bomb shelter, Paradise Street, Stuttgart, Germany