Mist over Cheow Lan Lake

Let your eyes wander

1. Begin with the great limestone cliff, half lost in the cloud.
2. Mist drifts down its side and settles into the forest below like slow smoke.
3. Along the shore, tall pale trunks rise above the canopy, holding their leaves up high.
4. On the right, one bare white tree lifts its forked branches against the fog.
5. To the left of it, two slim trunks are wrapped from top to bottom in dark climbing vines.
6. Below the trees, a strip of bright grass meets a band of pale floating weed at the water’s edge.
7. On the left, thin bare stems stand alone in the grass like posts left behind by the water.
8. In the still lake, every pale trunk appears again, stretched into a long wavering line.

There is no last thing to find. Look again wherever your eyes would like to rest, or close them and keep the picture.