JIKU book excerpt # 165

 

thunderous booming ~

piercing crackles . . . lightning ~

swollen, pregnant clouds ~

birthed on a mountain side ~

divine intuition

From Serenity the Arctic Skoolie

 

process ~

passage of descension ~

a free falling journey ~

till flakes run aground ~

nother Winter - fewer years

Another JIKU excerpt

 

gales mash root rot ~

Autumn’s needles cry . . . in fall ~

a breeze  - leaves - a trunk prostate ~

on a forest floor ~

shrill silence - Autumn’s FalL

Up the Mtn #115

 

warm dusk  lust drizzles ~

her parasol swollen   wet ~

COME !      lingering heat ~

crimson Moon (iro) softens ~

morning glory (iros) waning

Serenity #33

 

sense . . .  see . .  hear . . . know ~

without seeing, hearing, knowing ~

this is the tao ~

cultivate te . . . & ~

everything returns to . . .

Serenity the Arctic Skoolie #32

 

physical ephemera ~

to bloom & wilt ~

ethereal wisdom ~

birth- life - death ~

transcendence

(Prompted, honkadoried from Aescylus)

Serenity #24

 prognosis   -   diagnosis ~

subjective ~

objective ~

judgment ~

awareness

Alyeskan Interior #84

The Bookcover

Up the Mtn excerpt #35

Up the Mtn #25

JIKU & Up the Mtn excerpt #17

“Up the Mtn” book excerpt #15, available on iTunes

JIKU excerpt #6

JIKU excerpt #3

Revisitng page 62 from Up the Mtn poem #233

A play on the meaning of the word Komorebi.

Revisiting Up the Mtn #111, on page 58

Revisiting Up the Mtn page 56, haiga #164

Another example of Jikuzo-shi tanka & Haiga with a Hokusai print

phallic tussle

flirtations       wet parasols      

Oiran vie  

Cherry trees

Yoshiwara . . . blossoms

A woodblock print by Hokusai

Alyeshkan Dragonfly

precarious

tangling with a breeze

young dragongfly

mom whispers      over here      come

hover in this high sedge