Category: Fujifilm X-T4

Kingly Slumber

Emptied fruit crates
For a mattress

Battered and broken stool
For a pillow

A bed unfit
For the delicate senses
And sensibilities
Of a princess

Ah
But for a king?
Ample slumber
In deepest repose

Click a pic
From a speeding taxi
Crossing Jakarta

Months later
While editing
Curiosity piqued

Google “KETOPRAK”
Now I wish we’d stopped
And tried one

A journey
Once begun
Never ends

Overlapping
Those that follow
With belated discovery

But no regrets
For just another
Missed opportunity

On a new day
Of a new year
I remind myself

Do the work
To stay focused
On what’s important

Too close
Lost in detail
Context forfeit
Insight dubious
Caution advised

Reach for me, my friend
From the gloom besetting you
I have light to spare

Such was her presence
She left eddies in the world
Long after she left

Golden glory of sunrise
Remind me
Existence is a miracle thrice

That there is something to observe at all
That there is something to observe it all

And that I am both those somethings

Even at this narrowest end
The breadth and depth
Of the canyon
Makes Earth
Feel

small

In the midst
Of expansive glory
She finds wonder
In the smallest
Little things

It is that smallest
Little thing
About her
I love
Most

Celebrate the joy
Shared with friends
On an adventure

Making a meal
Out of life