On the Nurturing Sage

The scholar waters
his plant on the windowsill;
his prose he keeps dry.

On Spring Thinking

These gleaming snowdrops
standing about with bowed heads.
Scholars in the quad.

The Narrow Road to the Far Conference V

Coffee cups clinking
ravenous scholars descend -
biscuits and contacts.

The Narrow Road to the Far Conference IV

At the podium -
this room of academics
now almost silent.

The Narrow Road to the Far Conference II

The scholar regrets
his optimistic abstract -
typing on the train.

The Narrow Road to the Far Conference I

Full of spring urges
animals migrate homewards:
scholars gathering.

On Wintery Debates

Fogging the windows:
scholarly exhalations
hide the outside world.