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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“Small box of Cereal” poetry reading for Muriel’s Journey
Muriel’s Journey poetry reading at Word Vancouver Sept 14 18:00-19:30 PST Sept 15 10AM Japan I will read poem “small
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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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Shoebox
“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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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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Old Man Punk
Fresh out of defiance #draft
Fresh out of defiant slogansToo exhausted to scowlDone with rhetoric and angstGiven up on raised firstsJust my eyebrows for nowI
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Shoebox
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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Post'd (cards + letters)
A poem on a postbox at a goat farm, fading
{I feel somewhat obligated to use the often overused aesthetic term “Wabi Sabi” (beauty in decay)}, yet at Rural Caprine
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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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Shoebox
At the library, observations #poem
A spangled Cub Scout in his short pants and neckerchiefcheck out a book, holdinglittle sister’s handElder lady clutching armload of
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Where do you disappear? #poem
Where do you go whenYou disappear?I have a hunch(and want to ask) but suspect, maybePossibly too intimate to inquire, maybeAnd
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Shoebox
Poetry transcription: “finding home”
{transcription from an “field notes” notebook while in bed… stashed here so I don’t misplace} Finding homeNo longer dauntedBy subterfugePayola
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