(2013)
A tanka written on how friendships can spring up almost anywhere if you give them the chance.
Anticipation Generic butterflies swarm Twists, knots, fluttering They find no golden nectar Only number two pencils
To puddle one’s words Few are willing to admit Myself least of all To fall and land upon earth Closer to Earth than before?
I guess it’s about that time again time for another pointless relapse Time, like a dusty album record Spinning, around and around on end I want the needle to break or veer…
The darkest of nights It is on these nights I turn To these keys, clicking Fervently beyond reason Behind safely shadowed doors
Fresh Seattle rain Cleanser more of soul than streets I envy that sound Such simple pure harmony Don’t forget that umbrella!
Distractions of youth Parade like bright spring flowers Always on the mind Entangling my weak heart To the land of mud and ice
Ask me who he is A tall tree and branches keen words drop; leaves shaken I try to collect them all But forget them by the stream
A blank white tablet Fuzzy buzzing silences Click, click, click, and yet That single black divider keeps Blinking an endless cycle
初めては いつも苦しい 二回には?
The end of the road A distance we all travel Darkness as moonlight Spreads over stone and flowers That litter our path ahead
I pray for the day When my mind is clear Silence, sweet silence Schemes and impulses forgone To live without a shadow
Perplexity breathes Into the hearts of all men In heart beat matters We shy our true intent like An elephant in the vent
The mind of a girl That swirling vertex of bright Is unreachable So we put up these steel walls When we could have built a bridge!
Five points to this as stated thus… Five; to pick up things once falle… Four; to grasp all things from wir… Three; to greet, to cheat, and din… Two; to bind wild lovers with gold…
Sweet little black box From metalic elogy Sleep now, sing no more