Kaohsiung

According to Wikipedia, Kaohsiung is one of the world's four largest ports. It is also Taiwan's second largest city, after Taipei. Heavily polluted, it is not uncommon to see people wearing face masks. And the density of scooters per square meter of tar probably exceeds that of Taipei!


Night view of the city across Love River.



Street lamps have a seagull design. It's a seaside city, after all ...



A view of the countryside, outside Kaohsiung



Rice paddy. So that's what they look like!



Dragon pagoda and Tsuoying Lotus Pond



It's like a jetty with lanterns!



Kwang-chung

Dizzy mirror

through pools of piling darkness
arkness
barkness
a arf narc lark dog dies
dim dries
where why who wants what lies
in dizzy mirrors deeper than the sky

Through the pool of darkness

Through the pool of darkness
John Grim lifts his hands
shattered candles, broken cross
and a moan swells from the lands
- a forlorn, inconsolable sadness.

Blood haloes limply around his hands
mocking love once locked inside
his body hidden by the night
like a prayer stifled in silence
for a life that knew no light
now dying to meet the dawn.