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Tag Archives: furumachi
Slow Take
From the series, Japan Poems. The world disappears in the space between first sip and still life, adrift.
Posted in photography, Poetry
Tagged cafe, coffee, furumachi, haiku, niigata, poem, portrait, slow life, still life
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Cafe
From the series, Japan Poems. Words, well-warmed by the soft buttery spread and halo of naked bulbs– In tenderest solitude, texts run on, deviant, unfinished, bare to the trespasses of touch and longing.
Posted in photography, Poetry
Tagged cafe, cafe culture, furumachi, japan, niigata, photo, poem, words, writing life
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Tenor
From the series, Japan Poems. Given over to the immaculate tedium of dreaming, to spells of cherished solitude, notes are passed in silence, while absence swells the heart to fondest proportions and muted nostalgia.
Posted in photography, Poetry
Tagged cafe, furumachi, gallery, niigata, photography, Poetry, timeless
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Slow Coffee
From the series, Japan Poems. The sign in the window read Slow Coffee and when you went inside and found out the story of the owner an artist and former architect who had a brain stroke he explained that this … Continue reading
Posted in photography, Poetry
Tagged artist, cafe, coffee, furumachi, japan, niigata, poem, portrait, slow coffee
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Vanishing Point
From the series, Japan Poems. Until I can see you, the cities will vanish, effaced mutely in swaths of white on white, a glaring monopoly and divide— alone these distances prevail to hail symmetry, its pageants and faults, the legacy … Continue reading
Posted in Artwork, photography, Poetry
Tagged Artwork, city, dream life, furumachi, gallery, japan, miyu fujita, niigata, poem, vanishing point
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Window
From the series, Japan Poems. Rainy day, through the upstairs window at the café, framed within the wrought-iron railing enclosing the stone ledge on which the potted plants sit, women in summer kimonos carrying closed umbrellas.
Posted in photography, Poetry
Tagged coffee shop, furumachi, japan, niigata, photography, portraits, summer kimono, the writing life
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