It Makes You Wonder

From the series, Japan Poems.

People who vanish,

where exactly do they go?

Thin air holds secrets.

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Observance

From the series, Japan Poems.

Streets,

vivid in character

and starred in the calm lore

of desolation and subtext,

train the wanderer’s interest

to stop, notice, gaze

deeply at or into causes

warming us to the effects

through which we marvel

at curiously intimate lengths.

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Dispatch

From the series, Japan Poems.

Scent of coming rain,

accompanied by silence–

Solitude holds sway.

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How Many Miles?

From the series, Japan Poems.

There is no journey–

Only myths in which we fit

our lust to wander.

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Enigma

From the series, Japan Poems.

Mottling, scars, green,

elements blend, fade, reseed–

Where was I, what, when?

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Way

From the series, Japan Poems.

Every crossing

moves in step with homesickness

for places unknown.

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Focus

From the series, Japan Poems.

The world breaks daily

to reform your perspective–

Vision begets form.

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Edges

From the series, Japan Poems.

Zen, and the art of

postcard from no known sender–

You, too, are passing.

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Wandering

From the series, Japan Poems.

Empty streets beckon

to breed favored solitude

among vagrant dreams.

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Romance

From the series, Japan Poems.

Dilapidation a stunning aphrodisiac

for the soul hopelessly in love

with time’s obscene touch

and lusting after erosion

as a blatant course

of conjugal intimacy.

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