But the dots and dashes refused to stay on my pencil mark. I found I needed one hand constantly on the main dial, another on the vernier, trying to pin down my station like an elusive butterfly...Gradually I seemed to eliminate the middle step, and the sound of a letter dictated directly to my fingers without, apparently, passing through my mind at all. Letters flowed from the pencil to the tune of dots and dashes, like spirit writing.  

                                      DIT-DARR-DIT

                                                                         Anne Morrow Lindbergh, North to the Orient

Autumn

Slowness of falling leaves

Shortened days

Stars

Distant and bright

Flower near dew

Autumn

Falling leaves

Birds

See the mountain

Feel the valley

Psalm 46:10   Be still, and know that I am God...

 

                                                                

                                                 Year of rat

                                                 Departing the ship

                                                 And yet

Rain or shine

Seeing the wood

Mostly water and light

Seeing the wood

Rain or shine

Gathering driftwood

Sea

Polished stumps

Footprint of waves

Stumps

A grain of sand

A Buddha by Enku

 

 

                        Daybreak

                        Marsh reeds

                        Dragonfly

                                        

                                         Eulogy on the extremely delicate things, Zao Wou-Ki

        In memory of a once fluid man crammed and distorted by the classical mess.

                                                                                                                ---Bruce Lee

Standing chest deep

Sea calmly undulating

Sunset

Green waves

Beach flies biting

Violet sky

One Mississippi, Two Mississippi, Three Mississippi...

Dune grass

Sunset

Tracks of crab 

                                                       

Pioneer 10 spacecraft launched from Cape Kennedy on March 3, 1972.

"At this very moment the messages from another civilization may be wafting across space,

driven by unimaginably advanced devices, there for us to detect them...perhaps the messages

are already here, present in some everyday experience...Consider, for example, seashells."

                                                     --- Carl Sagan, The Cosmic Connection

Sound of waterfall

Mountain

A hollow shell

                                                        

                                                 "What could such glory be if not a heart?"

                                                                                 --Louise Gluck

                                         

First autumn coolness

Pair of hummingbirds chase

Golden evening

                                          

White behind the rain

One high blossom

Facing mossy boulder

I Know It Was You

Bullets

Clip clip and spray

Everlasting streets

Contested ground and decay

 

Bullets

Clip clip and spray

Bitterness and pain

Bodies and minds in disarray

 

Bullets

Clip clip and spray

I just want to kiss you Fredo

                                      Enough of heartbreak and death today

 The world

A dove

Blinking

Ever wider

The song of birds

Scattering

Blossoms pink

Wet ground

Smell of rain

Spring brilliant colors

Peace and holy harmonies

Rainbow

Muffin Top

Muffin Top

The banana nut muffins on the counter

Were made by hands not mine

I raise to my mouth to eat

Thinking about love handles

Thinking about hands

And how love doesn’t need a handle

Or anything like a clock

Independence Day

Dragonfly

Above the bloom

Sleeping petals

Dragonfly

Above the flower

Sleeping world

Cold watermelon

A tiger

All can touch

Yesterday ocean

Tomorrow canoe

Now carve a paddle

No rivets

Sound of self

Portrait as a pond

Stargazers

A series of checks and a star
An unlikely flag, yet
Balanced to navigate
Uncertainty in the wind
One star and a series of checks
Direction and pole none other
None other than hearts united