Greenmarket Square

  

In Cape Town I am looking for beads, big brass cage beads 

let there be some at Greenmarket Square

where the sellers sell to tourists every day

don’t forget to barter, bring down the price

colors are plentiful and makes it hard to decide
  
I finally find what I am looking for

it is really big and it is already strung unto a necklace 

I buy that one and a string of yellow beads

  
It is time to go

everything packed and carried away 

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dVerse prompt on market – this was my market experience in South Africa

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Lunch at the Top

We hiked to the end of Watchman Trail. Not too red in the face. Not too out of breath just kept going to the top.  Then we sat on a rock and eat our lunch surrounded by peaks of Zion.

picnic on the trail

can’t remember what we ate

fed by the beauty

Zion

  

Crown of Thorns

  

Ukiyo-e III

“pictures of the floating world”

Ukiyo-e II

“pictures of the floating world”

Cockle Shell

“………silver bells and cockle shells”

picked up on the beach

such an ordinary shell

broken to pieces

or sometimes whole

colors from browns to gray

ribbed on the outside

their wholeness is

a secret compartment

that holds heart flesh

til split in two and drifts

to you