Category: Canon 5D Mark II

Mother and Child

She kept him swaddled up
Against the cold
Against her chest
Where he could easily
Reach her breast

He snuggled in
Rested his chest
Against her heart
Which she loved

In the calm after
Clouds trail listlessly
Lying low in the valleys
Or spread thinly in the sky
While the sun’s last rays
Glimmer off the glassy ocean

Roaring down the sound
With angry ferocity
Kicking up white caps
Driving breakers onto shore

I lean into the attacking wind
Hold the camera steady
As the battalion of clouds
Advance, malice intended

It pleases me
I’m not sure why
It’s the blue
I think
The cobalt

It’s what drew me
What pleased
My mind’s eye
Said, “There’s something there”
Click
Click
Click

I am a being of the night
My energy rises when
Illuminated
By moonlight
And starshine

Mountains
Ablaze
Smoking

Flight
Water
Fighting

We are subtle lovers
The rain and I

I suppose that is the way
Of rainforest life

I hanker for the sun
Complain about the wet

But it exhausts me
when the sun stays too long

I watched the white paint shrivel and dry
On the old shed out back

I watched it pucker and peel
In successive seasons
Of wet, then cold, then wet again, then heat
Since decades past

On a perfect powder day
And the sun breaking through
On the untracked line
You’ve been eyeing for months

The last thing on your mind
Is an avalanche
But it shouldn’t be

How many ways
A fist

In anger
Frustration
Defiance
Resolve