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Tag Archives: japan
Set Course
In the palm of shadows, at the rounded edge of wake, vanishing points emerge to blur and perpetuate the deeply dreamed course of our longings, all those ghosts called upon to fade.
Posted in photography, Poetry
Tagged ephemera, hotel, japan, niigata, poem, Poetry, portrait, vanishing points
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Quartet
From the series, Japan Poems. A silent quartet, facing the mottled reflections of lives, unrecognized, emptying into a pool of dreams, wandering without claim or respite.
Posted in photography, Poetry
Tagged chairs, ephemera, hakusanpark, japan, niigata, photography, poem, Poetry, portrait, window
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Still Life
In our petitions for mercy repose is the standard by which we elicit the preferred company of grace.
Slow Burn
From the series, Japan Poems. Time aloneleaves us smallcherished pleasuresthrough which our livesare gathered slowlyin momentsof favored ephemera.
Posted in photography, Poetry
Tagged cherish, coffee, coffee shop, japan, niigata, poem, portrait, slow coffee, tender
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Wavelength
Within the dark cradling weave of silence softly she tenders the stuff of dreams upon which my starry vigils are gently rounded.
Posted in photography, Poetry
Tagged dreams, japan, niigata, photo, poem, portrait, sleeping beauty
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Liminal
There are tunnels at the end of the light leading back to passages marking our long day’s journey into night.
Posted in photography, Poetry
Tagged japan, niigata, niigata station, photography, poem, portrait
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Sanctum
From the series, Japan Poems. In the humid haunt of vinyl heaven one man’s canary soul vaulting in quarter and half-notes slotted between rapier motes and circular motions of dreaming worn down end to end to play on.
Posted in photography, Poetry
Tagged japan, music is food, music is love, niigata, poem, record collection, vinyl
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Claim
From the series, Japan Poems. To be found wanting is the favored and persistent urge of longing’s desire to know itself as a distant calling toward the siren of intimacy.
Posted in photography, Poetry
Tagged beach, japan, niigata, poem, Poetry, portrait, sea of japan
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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.
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Tagged coffee shop, furumachi, japan, niigata, photography, portraits, summer kimono, the writing life
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