Chicago

The Windy City
carries aloft a million
dreams on fierce updrafts.

NYC Christmas

Windows at Lord &
Taylor gleam with holiday
scenes. Small worlds of joy

Times Square

The heart of the world.
Like fireworks that never fade
explosions of light.

Holiday shopping in NYC

Bryant Park transformed,
craft booths shine with baubles, lit
from within  with smiles

Meditative mind

Silence erases
thoughts and stress like dry markers
wiped clean from white boards.

Winter landscape

First snowfall blankets
unraked beds of leaves. Nature’s
default is beauty.

High school

You’ll never again
feel pain, joy both at once. Be
so at odds with life.

Autumn precedence

Trees have never held
leaves as late as November.
Frost was wrong. Gold stays.

Artistic insight

Vision isn’t so
much a function of seeing
as it is feeling.

Passage to India

I’m not here. I’m lost
in Varanasi. A world
Luke Storm opened wide.