Wind-battered Straw Hat

(Leaf 80) – Reflection

 

At first when I saw him – looking down from where I stood on the cliff above – I was worried he might have drowned. But then I saw his hat move as he turned his head. He was lying there fully clothed, but without his shoes, cradled in the rocks – simply letting the sea-swells rise and fall, foaming over and around him. It was a very, very hot and humid day at the height of summer. His recumbent and relaxed form certainly seemed to suggest he’d found a good place to cool off.

 

 

Wind-battered straw hat

– the old man immerses himself

in the restless sea.

 

Busan, South Korea.

 

 

 

Photographs by Tim Chamberlain