blue
heron
dream

p i l g r i m

h    e    r    

                                                               spirit and flesh

                                                                        伊勢神宮, Ise Jingū
                                                                        34.454943° N
                                                                        136.725889° E
                                                                        Furuichi District

                                                                                       d e g r e e s        o f 

i n v i s i b i l i t y

                                                                bando san jusankasho

M a r i a    K a n n o n
( Kakure Kirishitan ) 

                                                                 3 3

                                                               war dead kami
                                                                      yasukani ambivalence

                                                                       m e j i
                                                                      7  5  3  november 15

                                                                      Chichibu Island

                                                                      horinouchi myohoji
                                                                      suginami ward - N i c h i r e n
matsue ♀ 1841

                                                                      mitake
                                                                      tadaosan

h    e    r    e  

sister's birthday wish -
this day peace in every thing and thought

too much talk about others tries me
I want to go home to ideas
wonder where rose quartz slides into Kansas
or record basalt and river stone Wisconsin
stop at flint Denmark
volcanic Japan
gossip is grit
no grit! I was warned
by Royston Tester to court peace
and keep it close
maybe even cold in various rivers
milwaukee
schuylkill
onda
(or streams - Linved, Darby, Ten Mile)
so now
gritless
awake at 5 in the morning
I'll at last
drop into the map
of
p o e t r y
(seasonal foundations of)
 m u s e s
(fugues, last quartets, song cycles)
owls
foxes and
(because it's autumn in america)
opossums.

blue jay!
rare sound

looking at art
friends
dark night lost in Pennsylvanian countryside


now this jay today

l a n d s d o w n e

here owls
nine times seven

(1 0 8)

times
climbed

r o s a l i a

p e l l e g r i n o


of the roses


holding your skull


smelling of violets

t i d e

limestone
rose quartz
schist

sand
leaf
algic loess

hard
soft
trace
trail

stone plot

cemetery of

seashore on

the last warm day

costmary
goldenrod
daucus carota

m i s s e d

after 30 years, didn't call
you weren't here
clear
he's
free

b i r t h d a y

i b i d e m - i t i s t h e s a m e ( for Marton Koppany)

dendrite, shell, palmyra

m i n d

a n o m i e

earth

universe

what is?

no tribe but this
s   i   s   t   e   r

it's enough

s p e a k i n g t o

I thought of Carolee Schneemann
her vaginal scroll enlightening
the educated, the well read.

s e e k i n g t o

I'm uncomfortable with the frankness, suspicions and sorrows of the working poor.

M a r y

Wollstonecraft!
Feminist and nation snob!

b i r t h d a y

in six days
10 past 48
2 past you


who's counting?

n e x u s

g a u t a m a

g a u t a m a