Accidentally (too early to be) Nighthawks
The three of usToo early to be nighthawksLong empty counterBut prepared for many yet to comeOne ‘special A plate,’ one […]
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Personal Musings, Shoebox
Shoebox
advocate ~ colophon postcard from ayurvedic room
there’s this project called “advocate” going slow slowly and part of me is apprehensive about exposing this much of myself
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poems on counter (pleasant rejection)
Submitted 3 poems to Fiddlehead literary magazine out of New Brunswick, Canada’s longest continuously running publication of the sort, issue
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“Advocate” poetry & Lomo folio to *charming* printer in Bizen
A new poetry folio chapbook called “advocate, vanish now and again” featuring short stanza poetry and Lomo photographs, all exposed during a tumultuous time of disappearing, collapse and re-creation (amongst the destruction of a currency and my life as I knew it) but hey, went to a cute print shop, maybe I’ll do some letter press there as well
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thinking about not thinking, yet so much *life*
a tremendous amount already, this morning, in bed at 11:30 AM, January 10, feels like three months already or three days: journals of dreams and schemes, festive cards sent and received, visits to two shrines and one Grey, earthquake while writing prayer tiles, three medical appointments already, helping several groups of guest planning visits, cowboy suits and Lego builds, garden plans, antique restorations and so much more, I want to share many artifacts jotted it down here and there, yet for now or for later… a poem
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Tram to Memorial #poem
* tram to memorial *Sept 1, 2025Okayama the jackhammer buildingsomething probably doesn’t need builtor not for me,after allthe streetcar line
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Hospital Day and Postcards at Café
Hospital Visit – July 18[____] sensei, Kanpo Dr at Okayama University HospitalReceived injection, right arm, neurotrophin and various vitamins, especially
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+ Smiling on the Inside + #poem
[poem about where i was, where i am, now – and not letting go, for various reasons & dentistry] Closing
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“smiling on the inside (holding on)” #poem
[poem about where i was, where i am, now – and not letting go, for various reasons & dentistry] +
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Shoebox
unfinished milk
He’s back to schoolWhich means:I dump his leftover milkOn my porridge (I should’ve made this into a poem, or did
Kinfolk + Pals, Shoebox
O-furo with #io + #poem
I have very rudimentary arithmetic / math skills but I do know: Ichiro is 41-ish months old so about 1,230
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Poem / notes: ‘recalling a scene’ #handwritten #draft
I’m always filling up notebooks: sometimes there’s a “system” where I have one that’s like a diary, another a scrapbook
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Poem / notes: ‘Suppose the Malaise…’ (handwritten, draft)
When a poem comes, you grab the paper and pen that’s closest & scribble the muses’s desire – and then
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28 years ago in Okazaki… JE to DO
“Your brother picked me up at Nagoya Station 28 years ago tonight, & hustled me out to his place in
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Healing Ramble, Shoebox
{a snippet of poem and musings about brain and soul pain} #bruised
Another *notable* one gone (you can tell when the reason/cause/method isn’t listed but conjecture abounds and the same cliches surface).
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Finding Home #transcription (repeat)
No longer dauntedBy subterfugePayola schemes or evenAssassinations by a religious stoogeStill enamored by overbitesPretty lies, feathered capsand Japanese super cub
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