Haiga Archive

Once your astonishment abates, this Roman temple in the California landscape seems almost natural. In actuality, it was built in 1910 as the pumping station for an aquaduct….
dreams of empire
a flock of grackles foraging
through dry grass

Industries and land usages come and go, as structures, asphalt and whatever plantings survive the natural climate subside back into the marshes—with or without the millions we spend to restore what we’ve despoiled…
pickleweed
the salt marsh harvest mouse
about his business

heat shimmers
yesterday it sang
pond snail shell

dead
of
night
an egret
flutters
from its
nest

dragon sunset the new year starts in a blaze

trusting its fate
to the autumn wind
duckweed

Buy a cookie save the rainforest. There’s a bake sale in the quad—I grab my change and go out to support the cause, but the table is surrounded by a noisy bunch of students and the chocolate chips are gone….
recycling
the toucan on a box
of Froot loops—
a science teacher asks me if
I’ve read the fine print