JIKU excerpt #23

Up the Mtn #23

Up the Mtn #22

Up the Mtn excerpt #21

Up the Mtn excerpt #20

Up the Mtn excerpt #19

JIKU excerpt #18

Up the Mtn excerpt #17

Up the Mtn excerpt #16

JIKU & Up the Mtn excerpt #17

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

JIKU excerpt #14

AMERIKKKA

I AM OF “SH%T HOLE COUNTRIES”

SO SAYS MEIN TRUMPF

(Image is of Eminem’s latest album cover “Revival”)

JIKU excerpt #13

JIKU excerpt #12

Ashagawa

JIKU excerpt #11

JIKU excerpt #10

JIKU excerpt #9

JIKU excerpt #8

JIKU excerpt #7

JIKU excerpt #6

JIKU excerpt #5

JIKU excerpt #1

I thought I would start the new year off by posting some of the pages from one of my poetry books entitled JIKU. JIKU was first published in 2010, the most recent 2016 edition is available in hardcover on Amazon, and as a pdf from me for free via dropbox.

I hope folks enjoy.

JIKU excerpt #4

JIKU excerpt #3

JIKU excerpt #2

A collaboration with an NHK Photo

wet parasols

Yoshiwara blossoms

wintered journey

Up theMtn #105

Hibiscus

wilt as I wither

pondering      western shores

The Alyeskan Interior #87 "tsukutsukoboshi"

                         birth  .  .  .  youth

             middle  .  .  .  old age  .  .  .  death

                               cycling

Up the Mtn #81 “NATURE”

transcending isms

where divinity resides

calm still solitude

Up the Mtn #104

dark blue      azure

luminous cosmic canvas

webbed grains sparkle

Up the Mtn #170

clouds obscure the moon

stars keep my shadows at bay

and axe splits firewood

The Alyeskan Interior #92

up there

in the interior

beyond Alyeska

The Alyeskan Interior #108

freezing . . . thawing

1 degree . . . (in) between

melting permafrost

The Alyeskan Interior #104

the rut

frost intensifies

the hunt

Alyeskan Interior #113a

bonn’s grotesque farce

cop  .  .  .  a caricature

climatic cop-out

Alyeskan Interior #111

america’s

“Criminal Innocence”

to race & gender

feigned naivete

Intersectionality

(“Inspired by the writings & words of James Baldwin”)

Alyeskan Interior #112

bear paws

of ash   rawhide  .  .  .  tied lamp wick

deep   cold    powdered     bliss

Alyeska Interior #109

 sled dogs . . . pulling by moonlight
        4 wheeler   .   .   .   in tow

             sub arctic mushing

Up the Mtn #18 (edited) book excerpt

a weathered season

the age of fall unfolding 

browned ferns      autumn buds

ferns droop under hard wet woe

dawn leaves      frost blossoms

Alyeskan Interior #42

rep-e-ti-tion 

homeric poetry

African Drumming

written words      derivatives

of cadenced      or-a-to-ry

The Alyeskan Interior #98 "1984 . . . 2017"

double speak

recidivists refute

immorality

Alyeskan Interior # 64

divine ephemera

cherry blossoms

in free fall

Alyeskan Interior #65

SPLAT!

birthed on a sidewalk

rain drops

Alyeskan Interior #59

wind blown blossoms

at america's cross roads

autumned idealists

Alyeskan Interior #88

tactility

sensations fluttering

moonlit breeze

A rewrite, a politicized senryu

Mein Trumpf

oppressive justice

Our 4th Reich

"Tsukutsukoboshi" from the Alyeskan Interior #87

              birth   -   youth

middle   -   old age   -   Death

                  cycling

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