Another JIKU excerpt, an example of Jikuzo-shi, available on Amazon & Blurb.Com

KAWABIRAKI

Ephemeral

Chiaroscuro

Sky bridge xing

#33 from "Up the Mtn", available on ISSUU.com, Blurb.com, & iTunes

BOOM!

crackling . . . silence . . . a tree has fallen

Ah! firewood

Gordon Parks "Segregation Story" #5.

Shot Gun Shack

Familial Unity

Well worn DIGNITY!

Photograph by Gordon Parks, from his "Segregation Story Series", "Untitled", in Mobile, Alabama, 1956.

Up the Mtn, Again! #227

-40F

I know warmth awaits me

beyond this numbness

whether indoors by the fire

or sitting by this tree ... 

My entry to a recent online contest for SanDisk.

In 45 words or less this is what I came up with to accompany the image they providied below

(Photography by David Black, of Arches National Park)