Thursday, 28 August 2025

Japan

 


Image of Senso-ji Temple in Tokyo by B. Harvey

 

“august haiku japan”

 

postcards no more just chat app

narita

send/receive yes have landed

 

earthquake early warning all

tsunami

network early morning call

 

tokyo together beats to

shinjuku

greets meets seats eats bleats repeats

 

wabi-sabi means lonely

wasabi

means sharing something spicy

 

slow boats in bucket seats view

shinkansen

streams hills slo-mo hokusai

 

O un-beleaf-a-bubble

suzuki

x-planes ink-ready-bubble

 

it’s pretty rainy upon

tsuruga

pretty and isn’t stopping

 

it is mist wild streams castles

nagoya

gold rooms walks and mist again

 

green mountain stream flute music

odori

up firm feet down drumming ground

 

flowing air and tangled cloud

nagashi

somen flow down bamboo chutes

 

waterfalls of butterflies

kyoto

computers do not compare

 

monkey tourists frolic at

kosan-ji

locals rabbit to frog guides

 

amazing amazingness

todai-ji

big buddha is still as stone

 

teatime in selected realms

osaka

expo pavilions

 

vast unseen but knowable

fujisan

under days weeks months of cloud

 

every fashion crosses

shibuya

stop look admire no time

 

cloud-surpassing towers where

nippori

radiates all directions

 

 

 

 

Sunday, 24 August 2025

World


 

Image: Iso-mandala No. 311 (2021) 

good morning

to the world you couldn’t make up

residents with minds of their own

trucks groan

magpies curlicue

you have words enough to explain

what

 

good afternoon

to the world completely familiar

object of your latest reports

patterns of coastline

getting off at the right stop

the talk is polyglot halfway

between snippets and incessant

friends text thankyou

 

good evening

to the world of certain change

alone together

you decide tonight to stay in

 

good night

to the world of all you know

airwaves choppy

documents saved a handmade movie

shutdown with a touch of icon

classroom dreams then

recall forgotten friends

even their period clothing

wanting everything at once

Saturday, 23 August 2025

Room

 


Image: “autumn 2021 real estate 2”


good morning

bedroom sonorously alarmed

well-dressed railway carriage

cafe of clinking spoons

office of ten thousand things

awaiting the next thing

most likely a text thing

 

good afternoon

routine surroundings

we cannot live without

chains of command commend

the corners of our mortality

relief cell or stairwell too

to catch our omnibus phone

our mainly materialist tour

 

good evening

boisterous pizzeria

highly strung auditorium

later once in a while

land of a thousand dances

keyswipe corridor

to rooms with a view

or at the top

 

good night

kitchen of catch-up

dog in his doghouse

bathroom the world over

turning a page turning the light off

a roof over our head

before moments magical mystery

fill the eye-shut spaces

that seem to lack walls