photo: Lake Tekapo, a small stone building near the lake of the same name, which derives its unique colour from stones coming from glaciers that have carpeted its bed. Onne can see Mount Cook (when the weather is fine), the highest mountain in NZ (3,724 metres) in the South Island.

If I were a church

I would be small and made of stone

I would have a single window

opening on  a lake so beautiful

that passers-by would stop

to say a  prayer

that  would resemble dreaming

hovering over the blue waters