Both needed.

sun...
lures this new flower
the rain

Back to the pond... and the mosquitoes.

lamplight
mosquitoes play chess...
we castle

Kathy, just... didnt see me.

I wave to you
across this empty common
a pigeon replies

I'd written a much longer story to this, too long to post.

_Years back, I saw a pastel painting on a silk scroll... a flying bird, and clasped in its claws and beak, were twigs and grasses... the things of a nest. Along side the painting were Japanese characters that, of course, I could not decipher. Now I can only speculate.

time
begins in every birth
the nest

Team work.

a hummingbird
hovers with the bee
one blossom

...and the rain persists


my schooner
sails an empty wind
the reef

Sounds of the pond, in the night's stillness.

night pond
crickets... frogs and rain
a distant highway

An "E" link, I thank you all. _m

anemones
bursting in this night's sky
fireworks