Breakfast

Photo of the sun, soon after sunrise, curtained by a canary of a native trees.

Famished native trees,
lunging for the golden yolk,
engulf the sunshine.

Explosive

Photo of ocean waves crashing into the rocky cliff face at Currumbin Beach on the Gold Coast, Australia.

Crashing into rocks,
Splash! Roaring deafeningly,
as ocean, human.

Memory

Photo of a bunch of daisies on a cliff edge at Currumbin beach, Queensland.

Daisies by the beach;
a hello and a goodbye—
remembering you.

Hello

Photo of the ocean as seen from atop a mountain with bright yellow flowers visible on the left side of the photograph.

Atop a mountain,
flowers gaze at the ocean—
rolling, it waves back.

Greeting

photo of flowering blades of grass with the sunrise behind them

Pink-headed grasses,
waking up to greet the sun,
nod at passers-by.