a fuji of you
for Keikei
looked at
10,000 times in
10,000 worlds
back & forwards
_______into ours
______________this afternoon
‘great wave at
kanagawa’
seeing the mountain
fuji, the ‘not repeated’*
is the real wave
not breaking, anchoring
the boats and
waves breaking, the snow & ice
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hands toward afternoon
i.m. Alistair Watt
april 2024
your hands
as they were
on the desk
come through
my imagination
into this afternoon
blue in sky &
tidal inlay along
the shore,
go towards
the pohutukawa
by the railings
painted
lime-shake
green,
the bark
packed
like
moist ropes
dried
together &
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flower-viewing the dead
’Hanami’ in Japanese means ‘flower viewing’. During this spring celebration people hold picnics to admire the cherry blossoms anywhere they find them, including graveyards.
Tokyo 1992
what afternoons
are closed
in the dead
on the spring wind
they turn in
handfuls
headfuls
treefuls
blossom in
the air
flesh staining
their mind
like a dawn.
over the blankets
upright stone
plastic bags
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Ruru ki Te Ruru 