Some secrets are best left…

First Love

No matter how much new gear I get, I always manage to go back to my first love: the Fuji XE1. You can get these for peanuts online. Colour rendition, control, toughness all second to none. With a relatively inexpensive pancake 27mm it’s the perfect go everywhere camera.

Yggdrasil

Through the woods…

Leafless Trees & Harvested Crops © R L Raymond

Through the woods 
in late afternoon in autumn

as the colours
drain brown
stain water
humus
over broken
branches
all bark-stripped
smoothworn
they blindly rush
hoping 
the leaf-slick
deer-run
leads them away
from dusk
hanging low
so soon
to the hollow
where the
flask of scotch
was hid

Originally appeared in “Gorilla Pamphlets”

Some experimenting below. I thought it may be interesting to append to this post. This would be a good exercice à la Beckett to achieve that “detached” vibe in one’s writing.

In experimenting with my poetry, I wanted to emphasize the “alien-ness” of my writing. I ran a poem through multiple AI translations, overlapping culture, idioms, etc. Original and “new one” below. Fun exercise in #poetry #WritingCommunity #writing pic.twitter.com/iHRebbngrK
— R L Raymond (@R_L_Raymond) December 12, 2021

Impromptu hike

I did not start the day expecting to hike for an hour or two, but an errand brought me close to a Provincial Park so I popped in. After a long, boring, nothing-to-do kind of day, this excursion totally reinvigorated me. A change of scenery — and some good old nature — does so much good.