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Tag Archives: portrait
Floating World
Within the hyphenated seizure of rain upon stone, a lyrical wake of kisses threading sky to the earth-sown– Images of the floating world perceive our birth and death, we go on, surviving our ghosts, dissolving into unmembered deeds of light, … Continue reading
Posted in photography, Poetry
Tagged ephemera, floating world, japan, niigata, poem, portrait, rainy day, sacred, shrine
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Inlet
From the series, Japan Poems. Stalking fervently inlaid territories and textures, ribbed intimacies scaling soundly an overture to evolutionary bonds and leaps— lizard, fish, man splashing wildly in pools jazz forming freely in the river’s fast-moving mouth— notes, air, ground … Continue reading
Posted in Artwork, photography, Poetry
Tagged free form, free jazz, inland fish, japan, japanese jazz, motoharu yoshizawa, music, play on, poem, portrait, vinyl
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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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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.
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Tagged beach, japan, niigata, poem, Poetry, portrait, sea of japan
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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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