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Noir

From the series, Japan Poems. Screen black. The sound of waves lapping against the shore. Fade in to three police officers and an unshaved man gathered around the empty boat carried in by the sea. The poem ends, the movie … Continue reading

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Strangers

From the series, Japan Poems. We are all pretending here. Hoping not for the best but for not the worst to claim unsettle or overtake us. The young girl in the rented summer kimono taking a selfie with the misty … Continue reading

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Passage

From the series, Japan Poems. If only in trespasses and glimmers, if only the passages within possessed lasting value— What is that thing, at the edge of waking, that thing without agenda or the burden of always moving freight?

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Forgotten Temple

From the series, Japan Poems. Moss-carpeted stone steps leading up to the forgotten temple, fewer and fewer guests paying their respects to these hallowed grounds, a song of stately decay, of bones and overgrown grass, a rusted bell tolling absence … Continue reading

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Moon River

From the series, Japan Poems. To engage the intimacy of distance one must attend from within the agency of absence to sensual contact.

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Web

From the series, Japan Poems. We, lucent beads of rain, clinging indefinitely to a spider’s web— the climate of ephemera.

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Cell

From the series, Japan Poems. In the loneliness of night she stares at her cell phone thinking about her next customer not thinking about them at all numb wondering about her high school friends what they are doing right now … Continue reading

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Sylvia Plath

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In the Beginning

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Fall

In autumn’s brisk grief, leaves flashing briefest raptures to seed elegies.

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