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Monthly Archives: September 2023
Transit
From the series, Japan Poems. All these arrivals and departures gauged to give edges and form to the prevailing plot twists and turns of our lives– In self-made labyrinths we wander, and lose ourselves repeatedly, if only to encode marked … Continue reading
Posted in photography, Poetry
Tagged japan, kyoto, poem, Poetry, station, street photography, transit, travel
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Solitude
From the series, Japan Poems. There is a danger in wondering too much, in giving due notice to the low burning fire that nightly dreams of arson– An entire block or city or world eviscerated in a vengeful nod or … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Press
Tagged kabukicho, nocturne, poem, poem portrait, street life, street photography, tokyo, tokyo nights
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The Hours
From the series, Japan Poems. Outside the station monotony finds solace in ritual want mated to vagrancy and hours slow burned.
Posted in photography, Poetry
Tagged hours, japan, niigata, niigata station, poem, Poetry, street photography, teen spirit, youth
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In Our Solitude
From the series, Japan Poems. Fasting on solitude and wordless want, waiting for the next far thing to arrive, to cede distances to an intimately engraved haunt– In dreams begin the cutting of our losses, only to see them return … Continue reading
Posted in photography, Poetry
Tagged bandai bridge, bridge, crossings, japan, night scenes, poem, Poetry, shinano river, solitude
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Moonshot
From the series, Japan Poems. Rows of secret lives, in the shadow of the moon– River flow, syncing.
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Tagged bandai bidge, full moon, haiku, high rise, japan, niigata, photography, poem, shinano river
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Transit
From the series, Japan Poems. Train station at night, quiet keeps me company– First person dreaming.
Posted in photography, Poetry
Tagged echigo ishiyama station, haiku, japan, nightwalks, niigata, poem, street photography, train station
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Cinema
From the series, Japan Poems. At night’s softest lyrical edge, dreams, untethered, come and go lightly. The cinema of our lives projected as a mutable course of flickering images, a tenure of opiate bewitchment, so soon fading.
Posted in photography, Poetry
Tagged japan, moon river, night, nightscape, niigata, poem, Poetry, street photography
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Nightwalk
From the series, Japan Poems. At night, the high-rise with the lighted siege of multi-colored eyes, grows stumpy legs and projects out of the earth to wander freely, without conviction or purpose. No one, not even the people living inside … Continue reading
Posted in photography, Poetry
Tagged chestnut river, dreaming, high rise, japan, nightscape, niigata, poem, river, wonderwalk
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Nocturne
From the series, Japan Poems. A gentle beckon, and softly blurred invitation to disappear– No words necessary as you drift along the gauzy lines of a nocturne, so soon to fade, so near to dreaming within worlds quietly lost.
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Tagged echigo, japan, night walk, niigata, nocturne, poem, Poetry, train station
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