I am


an optimist.
Photo: Blossoms 
in the Wairarapa, New Zealand

birth

It's my birthday today.
All is living and dying, again.
Photo: Ta Chiu, Hong Kong
A festival of renewal

more than one

Czeslaw Milosz: The purpose 
of poetry is to remind us / 
how difficult it is to remain one person.
Photo: Our garden in winter, New Zealand