From the series, Japan Poems.
Aboard the ferry,
man dreams he is a sea gull–
Above, clouds wonder.

From the series, Japan Poems.
Aboard the ferry,
man dreams he is a sea gull–
Above, clouds wonder.

From the series, Japan Poems
Down by the river,
a boy and his grandfather–
Soft grass grows through stone.

From the series, Japan Poems
A turned head beckons
the promise of faraway–
Lie again, softly.

From the series, Japan Poems
Street festival, June,
summer kimonos in bloom–
Autumn waits its turn.

From the series, Japan Poems
Eternity found
in grains of sand, scoured by sea–
Pairing, without qualms.

From the series, Japan Poems
Flowers in the dark
smell different from flowers
not in the dark.
Hands part silk
to sunder the gauzy veils of sleep
with tenderest unconditional regards.

From the series, Japan Poems
The longing for peace
in loving sync with repose–
The softest route home.

From the series, Japan Poems.
No words to describe
this passing sense, here now gone–
Dreaming in real-time.

From the series, Japan Poems
Fleeting intervals
where a pause is magnified
to widen one’s berth.

From the series, Japan Poems.
In lieu of the Last Supper,
I give you Lunch at the Ramen Shop,
each man a disciple unto his own appetite
to savor the slow heaven of noodles
in pews of intimate congregation.
