Wildflower, for Foster (song with Mikael Lewis, 2018)
A song for a brilliant fella who’s flame burned out too fast (21 y/o) decades ago now but a conversation […]
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Signs in the Wild, vol. 0: Death Society Meeting, Dancing Unit, Calmly please
These are (as i recall) from Sri Lanka but otherwise un-annotated, non-geo-located, and un-credited assortment and purely for archival amusement
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Poem: ‘Served my Heart’ #draft
Suppose its pettyAnd surely inelegantbut I’ll spill it anyhowAs i recollect“I still think of all the stuff I suddenly gave
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Diary: Leaving India ~ rapidly, in a fog (Nov. 2016)
Note: transcribed with light editing from my scribbled journal made in “real time” – as always more to say but
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Prayer for the Lost Ones
My heart aches for each of them, the undiscovered ones, the forgotten ones, the families, the grandmas, the grandchildren that
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Kinfolk + Pals
Diary: Closing Circles with Stones ~ Grandmother to the Ohaka
Aug 19th was 49 days after Ryoko’s Grandmother Tomiko passed away at 94 years old, 6 days after baby Ichiro
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Lists + Awards + Profiles, Music / Rock
Media: Jerry Garcia’s Legacy / PDN, Guam, Aug. 18, 1995
Summary: Woke up to the news, quit my job, went to a candlelight vigil, passed one around, talked to some
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Kinfolk + Pals
Ichiro: card #13 “generations” #Tomiko / 5.7
Ichiro Olson, card # 13 “Generations” / 5.7 The past few days we’ve witnessed a powerful transition of life as
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Kinfolk + Pals
Dad, 6 years gone / brief notes
Changing topics from Nagasaki to Olympics to… Dad. Well he’s gone 6 years today. On my mind so much as
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Postcards via video
Preserving the Wildflower – Postcard #69 via video
What becomes of the seemingly ephemeral creations we leave behind? Especially in the analog-days? Consider these in the context of
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Postcards fr. Gravelly Beach
Simon, Stolen, Shame – Postcard #84
A heart-wrenching poem about an abducted boy called Simon – who lived nearby, was my age and sorta looked like me
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Are no Stranger, Remembering Remembrance
Rest Me Naught
Rest me Naught The partisans attacked Shortly after sun dawned Trapped behind the lines Two days after the treaty signed
Are no Stranger
Witnessed my Own Autopsy
On a concave hardwood slab (carved in the 16th century by the Portuguese or possibly Dutch)I witnessed my own autopsy
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Postcards fr. Gravelly Beach
Hospital Letters and Flames – Postcard #77
In hospital with sedated Grandpa, Dave reads complete “Letters from Russia” epistolary literature project with frequent interruptions from visitors, nurses
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Are no Stranger
Not Being There (for Rod) / notes
Not Being There (for Rod) (page 3? Not being there Instead a mediocre duo Plays “Forever Young” And “Fast
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Are no Stranger
Tactility of Loss
Tactility of loss A Pantheon of pals Ash goes to ground Ride on endless highways From Timpanogos To Olympus Underway