Alight

Photo of the summer sunset, with the silhouette of a house and a jacaranda tree in the foreground.

Highlight of the day:
sun setting the sky on fire;
summer silhouettes.

Rise

Photo of a plane’s wing as it lands, with the wing flaps engaged.

Stretching lazy limbs,
cracking joints and waking up,
overnight plane lands.

Olde

Close up photo of a bonsai tree, established in 1963.

Lifetime’s worth of growth
compacted in every inch—
ancient bonsai tree.

Frozen

close up photo of the ice crystals on frozen mushrooms

Little icicles,
at end of their frozen world,
cling on for dear life.

Brave

Close up photo of a small head of cauliflower, some of its leaves chewed by bugs.

With dumb bravado,
standing up to the big bugs,
small cauliflower.