both

I want to enclose and be enclosed.

Photo: A room in New Pacific Studio, 

near Masterton, New Zealand

a poem to give

Wait until this moody weather 
is over / That’s all that matters...
Photo: Lotus in car, at a festival, Hong Kong. For P.K. 

Text: From "A poem to give to a bitter melon," by Leung Ping Kwan (1949-2013)

dry hot dry

 

A dry time.  Grass is yellowing,  

wisteria leaves falling. We woke up this morning  

and saw a double rainbow,  

but only spits of hot rain.  

I once called summer a giant snail.  

Photo: City bench, Napier, New Zealand

The Pacific

We walked to the log-seat,

and then a bit onward, eastward, 

to the sea, the same large sea 

we once walked westward to,

how many years ago.

Photo: The Pacific, Napier, New Zealand

and remembering Moss Beach, California