focus

lumens

snow first in fifty-four years

how it fell -

students said
it's coming down
around shoes
white paper
dying as clear water

(thanksgiving)

a pumpkin pie, half eaten
always bought two
for you

first person argument
emotional vespers

an empty an(d) image (moved by)

an empty an(d) image

A path of birds

there is this

ajar
a jam
a jolt


just below

if loved
it does
and has

above Noborito
the biggest moon in 70 years

to the station with these two young men
friends who've tolerated
a canal walk to nowhere

karin
the chinese quince
an aroma so
sweetly autumn
on three continents

warm melon pan
and
the smell of grilled meat

bats

down to a meter it flew
in warm air, little light
near the persimmons
and roadside shrine bibbed in red

instead of sleeping, they eat,
drawing water and meat from air.

not one of them downed.

only one of us looking up.

Sleepless, Kanagawa - advice

If it's a night sleep cannot find you,
lay awake in a room
of stones and water.
At four, a door opens upstairs.
Footsteps clod across that floor, which will lift you up to dawn.
Note the wet garden, near.
Follow the first bird,
inquisitive.

No
when so divided.

Read
Jabberwocky
and Hopkins.

That is what we grieve for.

she:
" 9/11 and 11/9
the two worst days
in recent American history."

S a g a m i

 a tomcat foot bone (talus) dated to 200 AD found in a grave with burnt human remains near Kastrup in southern Jutland

drawing upon the water
painting ink and white
so long left and now returned

the eyes are still stunned, shunted, unclear
yes occasionally the filters fall
and all
seems here
and clear

think again
place
en plein air

remains of

beowulf, ˈbeɪəˌwʊlf 

ˈʧɔːsə,ˈʧɔsər 

powys 
ˈpaʊəz 


(remains)

ðiː , ði remains

ðəʊz , ðoʊz

ðeə. ðɛr.

ðæt (remain)

ðɪs  (remains)

ˈʌðə, ˈʌðər 

truːθ , truθ 

ˈhæznt, ˈhæzənt

ʧeɪnʤd (remains)

æz truːðz duː 

æz truθs du  

ˈ

obdurate
meditation
perseverance
working hard

at

thes
the
these
this


ðɪs

の

waxing crescent
walnut ink


Kakure(hidden)
infra dig (beneath one's dignity)


forgotten in the dark


let light



in