explain

arranged to explain nothing
which is as plain
as the blank look on your face


as canvas for water colour
half circle rock
renders paint in motion


as though they had minds of their own
the stream and the shadow perform
in spite of artistic intention
and fill the empty spaces
with energy in flow


stopped for inspection
the one moment in the ripple held
cannot contain or explain
the way it looks when you just let it go

how to bee a flower

another blast of colour


isn't diversity grand


I can't resist the bees


who gets to the sunlight first


by the time it got to this stage any chair would be van gogh twisted


resistance as opposed to aggression


with the right combination
of sunshine melting snow and rainfall evening
the strength of the flow will make its own kind of sound


if this were just an eye
would it be able to see
the manifestation of spirit in abstract design


without intention enter into the flattened dimension where a sentence, without objects to conjugate with verbs, runs on forever

shape diver's city

finding ways to let purple be purple


follow journey lines
to offset doorway consumed
by alternate signs of travel


clouds repeat the sound of empty
it echoes with a continuing vibration
that never finds a receiver

broken perceptive angle of disappearance
flattens objects to their natural shape
within a manufactured landscape

in the river mind

two suns rise in the alien world of river mind

inside a structured design impressed like digital clock display
one odd shadow combined with a wisp of a stick
has a smile so like what morning mirror sees

little sections

colour interlude, repeating sun


a celebration of something ... being blue


shadow cast same as before
but never in the same place twice
speaks words made more legible
when examined


a continual process of seeking balance in flow
in light of the eye of perception being focused


lips as a subject of interest

dissected aspects of self
arranged in as balanced a way
as frame and light collide allows

slanted light

slanted like a sunset identifies light


gargoyle crows guard the journey

isolated by incidence of light
reflection timed to coincide
with the moment of manifestation

random timing

orange you glad I was lucky enough not to miss this


a background out of focus and in motion isolates one orange object


angled like an arrow


falling into place
at just the right time
shadow distorts perception


when a rock has a nose like a cat
then sooner or later shadows will fall
to make a couple of eyes


one stick interrupts the flow
with a vibrational resistance that emits
water pattern in waves of colourful song


so that random and timing make sense
distributed shapes collide inside a frame


two objects in opposition
like stick people
one on the run from the other

spiritually speaking
when you happen to find two symbols
with so much history behind them
one wonders where the originals are

ever replacing empty

as if a mouth opens to consume bugs


when the subject in question
chose the pattern of design in order to facilitate communication
it's left to a perceiving mind ever replacing empty to decide
whether the message is received

impressed by stone
one leaf held in place
by pressure eating away
at the edges until one eye
sees the same way
passers by do

space left behind

some blue sky behind the pouring rain


one tree
against a chaotic
van gogh sky
to remind
all things can be
what they seem

without intention
empty suspension of thought
says now is the time
for frame to design
with shadow a representation
of a linear explanation
of now
as a shift between
subject and empty
space left behind

time for water

drawn by one black eye in a green moss-covered stone
the tone of the water vibration
plays with the illumination
of only one moment
out of relation to time

i wrote one line randomly with water
where i could see the light
playing mind games with perception
so nothing perceived is really as it seems to be
and with everything in motion it's essential to act
on the first notion that appears in the stream
metaphoric, universal or literal

different locations

A trip to Silverton to visit with my brother and his family.


Idaho Peak with its many avalanche chutes.


A couple of the flowers in their yard.




These look like huge golden dandelions.


We took a trip to Wragge Beach for a few hours.


The tiny islands offshore are cool.


to question the manifestation of your own imagination
is to challenge the universe to reveal itself


when the creek formed a face
in order to speak
it was only in the swirl
that has to change to be


allowed to freely interpret the balance of light and dark
in a certain place within the flow of the stream
it is possible to find your own kind of balance


universal cellular structure
is a precise imitation
of the given vibration
as observed


a reflection changes the line of vision
to help the mind extrapolate
the direction of the tension

self discovery through shadow
never sees the face
that has no eyes
with which to see