No Dominion

From the series, Japan Poems.

Umbrella ghosted

by whoever held it last–

Rain in the forecast.

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Tracks

From the series, Japan Poems.

With people removed

dreams travel great lengths to occupy

the paralleling tracks

of company and solitude.

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Lengths

From the series, Japan Poems.

Dreaming is given

to distances laid over

by intimacy.

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Station

From the series, Japan Poems.

Through a gate darkly,

semblance of lives, burning time–

Tokyo nocturne.

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Bicycle

From the series, Japan Poems.

Heaven’s bike country

where wheels are always turning

to leaven grounding.

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Way Station

From the series, Japan Poems.

Metaphors underscore

every moment of passage–

For example,

we being guests upon this earth

but briefly, solidly imagined

as entities before dissolving

into blurs, en route to fading,

among the gusty corteges of mass transit.

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Detour

From the series, Japan Poems.

In a world of blue,

you’ve been through it, haven’t you?

Scraped deep to beauty.

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Less, More

From the series, Japan Poems.

Intimacy bred and cultivated

by narrowest confines

is the progenitor

and best advocate

for imagination’s nubile foreplay

in limitless spaces

dreamed up in real time.

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Weather Report

From the series, Japan Poems.

Satiated want

of rain kissing ground open to

blurred trysts with strangers.

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Stopover

From the series, Japan Poems.

In the fast season

of love hotels lusting cast

melding prefers dark.

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