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Sunday
May272018

Dirt Market

New ink, new day
Return to Banlung market zone

in the wild west

at the end of the world

feeling

free

open

connected
zen dynamics

Tiger awareness

 

Dirt labyrinth

Blind man follows son

Plays recorded Khmer music inside brown robe
Someone hands son crumpled Real

He passes it to father's silver eyes

Strings
Echo into light
Breeze turns a page

Laughing humans

Sit among curious eyes
Process

Becoming

Silent

How's it feel returning to The Wild West

At The End of The World?

Breath of fresh air, blue sky, red dust pajamas

Volcanic meatball

Tuesday
May082018

Listen

I am a person who listens for a living.

I listen to wisdom and beauty.

 

fast wing

subtle light

shadow
little wing

magic 

light dance song bird

kitchen girl is pregnant with hope
save me baby

spill ink
take a line for a walk

Saturday
May052018

Chiyo-Ni Haiku

My hunter of dragonflies

How far would he have strayed today?

Fukuda Chiyo-Ni

 

Monday
Apr302018

Father & Daughter

The blind man and his daughter.

He wore a felt hat. He gripped a wooden staff. His face was long and sallow.

The girl was 11. Wearing cotton, her face was solemn, shocked.

Both wore plastic flip-flops.

She held his hand.

They came to an intersection.

Small buses, bikes, lost fat Europeans, orange robed wandering monks, silver vans.

Women carrying bamboo baskets spilling oranges negotiated pavement.

The girl led the man across the street.

Their pace steady.

She was his eyes. He trusted her implicitly.

A stranger drawing in his notebook watched them.

He pulled a 20 Kip note from his pocket.

He gestured to the girl, Take it.

She froze.

She spoke quick Lao words to her father.

Questioning, doubt, healthy uncertainty in her eyes.

The stranger gestured the 20.

She remained still.

He got up and slowly approached her. His hand extended the money.

His hand said, take it.

Her small hand emerged with caution. Her small fingers accepted the gift.

She smiled placing her hands together.

Her fingertips touched her chin meaning, Thank you.

She whispered to her father, it's 20.

His blind eyes darted back and forth.

He mumbled, Thank you, joining his hands.

His wooden staff hung in the air like a pendulum.

She led him away.

They disappeared.

Friday
Apr272018

Fragments

One-eyed blind.

On the 28th he said, Yes, I prefer doubt to certainty. I am more interested in the traces

than the object. I love the fragments.

On the 29th she asked, Where do I place it, this story?

What country what continent city village or heartbeat?

How do I keep it simple like a breath?

She asked him, Do you like small? Skin on skin? Yes kneading her shoulder muscles,

Easing tissue from her supine sublime spinal chord

Erasing tension. Her smile said, Yes. Her relaxation exhaled.

She spoke with hand wings. Short, fast and deadly.

She dreamed of writing a poem perhaps flash fiction.

She selected a pen unscrewed the black ebony summit opened a black notebook.

She made a pot of green tea.

She began with flowing calligraphy letters.

My life began in a village. I don't need to leave my village. My village is the world.

She drew a picture. It looked like this temple. Women carved it. Caress the details. 

 

Tourists find, travelers discover.

A dreamer with controlled imagination.

SLOW CHILDREN...lightning bolts - blue butterfly, white sky, green flowers, red leaves, songs of invisibility, piano shadow notes.

How do you spell loss?

What I call "memory" contained an entire world.

A blind painter creates from memory. A blind writer. A blind poet.

Words of yellow laughter.

A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.

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