Rising high

photo of three tall buildings, one still under construction, in Perth city

Human obsessions:
infiltrating glass ceilings
and ozone layers.

Bye

To new adventures
marked by departure lounges—
life full of richness.

Dying

close up photo of a freshly-fallen lacebark flower on a bed of dried, old leaves

Angelic flower
lays on a bed of autumn
disintegrating.

Wrapped

close up photo of a white magnolia flower in a sunny day, its petals curled

Wrapped up in itself,
curling in the winter sun—
garden magnolia.

Yogi

Close up photo of the bud of a native hibiscus.

A flower, content,
retreating into child’s pose,
fades away slowly.