Hikari 425, 18.40 (Shinagawa to Kyoto)
20.01.2009.
To tie down these kite-flown thoughts
Into well-formed expression.
A single string, buffeted by wind -
Rushing from here - to there
With an essential Japanese efficiency
Slipping by the sleeping towns and warehouses
Bullet-speed - so swift it's as if
We are still.
Walking the streets feels like this.
Noise - hopeful bargains, sex hecklers, vending conveniences
Reach for your brief attention
Late stage capitalism -
Shoveling cultural snow.
'Nani?!'
Really. (Really really.)
Sex as a business expense.
Lovers in Japan
Are full volume or mute.
Pain in Japan
Must be screamed aloud
ah - hysteria. Or
Left to simmer
A low pilot light burn
Awaiting the trigger
Innocuous - as gas filling your Ikea apartment
Of all those things you kept buying to persuade yourself
To keep living.
Flick. Boom.
Nani?
Really.
...
Hikari 366 Kyoto to Tokyo (In Praise of Shadows.)
24.01.2009
Clear blue cold day.
Fuji-san to the left; low stormy seas on the right
Sleep like a soothing balm
By the growl and hum
Imitation of...
Tao - the many named, and nameless
We doze our last before Shinagawa
The train shoots through - Tokyo Station
Where the municipal salarymen go
Flow to the East
We, of the West
Come for nothing.
To laze under a sky of nothing
Deep sunk well where only an oval
Blue snow cloud shows
"We will soon be arriving at Shin-Yokohama
In 4 minutes."
In minutes leaping distances
By foot - days
Roll on. Doze.
Dream of shadows.
...
Paper Chaser (Fukuoka - Beppu, Arr. 23.39)
Looking to live in my own skin
Pen spinning Paper Chaser
Left to the devices
Of the world's whims
14.05. INT. CANAL CITY.
I'm watching from 1F
A handsome juggler
Yoyo thrower, men's joker
Rhythm flow to the to/fro
Gypsy accordian song
Chords plyed
By a classic kawaii girl
Love, is who they are
And radiate.
They play anarchy - with ease
Their practised chaos
Is really a departo store joke
to delight the Japanese children (Fukuoka size!)
We're laughing along, us camera-hanging gaijin
Together, they love as love is and should be
Mr Juggler & Ms Accordion.
Mia, from the Shire ('but don't hold it against me')
Turns between photographic capture
And grins:
"Everyone in Japan is dating!"
Nani?
So des ne!
I found it.
What I longed for -
Paper chaser's dreams
(It was on the Sonic 57 to Beppu
All along.)
I'm ready. Alive and entirely
Here and now.
Singing
(I dig it.)
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Before/After
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White Lillies (Hotel Costes)
4.2.2009
White lillies
Views of the city
Summer in Sydney: $200
Breakfast (American) for two
Wine, well aged, cooling by the mini-bar
Skyscraper lights leading the way
To the Bridge, to the glimmer Pacific
Wilkommen.
Konbanwa.
This is our city in Summer
Say the street banners on George
Most definitely.
Home is this hotel room.
Home is the space left quiet
Between 2am conversation
Between your hunger and my
Back pressed against these anonymous white walls
Say nothing.
We are East. The sun peaks to glitter the CBD glass
Law firms, banks, Ernst and Young auditors
Aflame by the dawn.
Shimmer on the ranging glass
City, and Hyde Park, the Domain
Sunday morning.
...
Shinagawa 304
9.2.2009
Let it come as it goes
Fall in with the flow
Be, wherever you are
'Now, life is living you.'
... (That line was on a poster outside Higa...something temple on Karusuma-dori, Kyoto's main street.)
...
Isn't it good.
You.
Always trying to undress me.
My beautiful clothes
'Leave them on, then.'
Sure.
And as I do, I sing
'Isn't it good
Norwegian wood.'
And you say - again.
Again.
...
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