Poetry

steaming tarseal roads –
a hot, summer rain reveals
a drain’s secret smells

Photo by GT1976 [CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)], from Wikimedia Commons

in a feijoa
orchard, birds are singing – ripe
fruit lies on the grass

swarming ants gather
sap – a pile of wood under
an old tin cover

harp seals at play –
a glacier breaks apart
in an arctic bay

Photo by Gary Bembridge from London, UK (Monacobreen Glacier Calving, Svalbard, Arctic)
[CC BY 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons