The sun falls
On the Andaman Sea
Kicking up reflections
Of a day’s moments
On the Andaman Sea
Kicking up reflections
Of a day’s moments
“Travelling South East Asia,” he said
“You’ll wake up every morning
And have no idea
What the day will bring.”
First, a tangent.
Chinese characters are beautiful things. The more interesting ones often contain characters within characters, known as ‘radicals’. So any character containing the character for water is inflected with the sense of liquid, and any character containing the roof radical is inflected with the sense of shelter/safety, or lack of it.
“What?”
“The Jesus Effect,” I say more loudly. “When the sun comes through the clouds in shimmering rays like that.”