Enlighten

Photo of the sun, behind a band of grey clouds, its colours mildly visible.

Drawing up the blinds,
lets in the first light of day:
sun after a storm.

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.

Masked

photo of the deep sea, disappearing into the blue horizon with a few boats barely visible in the far distance — Semaphore beach, Adelaide

Undettered shorelines
as far as the eye could see—
turbulent deep seas.