False Flags
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Never Never
This land is broken
The grass and trees
Are thick
Startled by its demons
A path cannot be found
Wandering
Stumbling
A starving pack
Has gathered
Their teeth sharp
Their nature c… Read More
平凡
Many times
I have to crouch
To stay on
An even keel
Like the crescent moon
In the clear night sky
I do not move
From where I am
Distant
Harmless
Constant
The ground fills
W… Read More
Sweet Plum Stain
The wind
Has taken them
Why does it not end
Henan
Photograph
Sichuan
Deep fried yak
They are
My plum blossom
Stained like ink
On Spring Festival red
My skin
Still wears the… Read More
En Pente
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Lent
The first sight of March
Can be too much
The rain brings with it
New blades
New needles
To scrape the calcium
New injections
For the pain
My window
Misted
I sit and listen
To the downp… Read More
Parade
Present a flower
Lie to the soul
There is
No end to this
The seasons
Will take the bloom
The winds
Will scatter the scent
Its name
Will be forgotten
Standing by
A concrete bench
I wa… Read More
Only Human
There is no call
There is no mail
Not from the
Photograph
Not from the
Time between
My love
That experience
Will not return
Not from that country
Far away
Not from this moment
Ke… Read More
Pine Green
Under the branches
I watch the rain fall
The cleaning is over
The broom put away
With nothing to do
But wait for the date
I pull up my hood
And fix my focus
Magpie
Sparrowhawk
I… Read More
月光花
The seasons pass
And the stockpile
Dwindles
These clothes
Do not cover the cost
Feeling the chill
I cough and I sneeze
Wretched
Alone
I shouldn’t smile but I… Read More
Spring Chime
In this clear blue
February
Is that a fighter jet
I see
Could be near
Could be far
I don’t know
The map has tilted sideways
And the bell has lost its chime
Too old to fig… Read More
Greetings
Which greeting
Should I use
Between the calendar
And the Spring
A letter
A card
A handwritten note
Wiping my coat
I spread out the wax
This moment
This cloth
This grey winter pati… Read More
Thursday Mystery
This morning
The sky appears to be
Crying
The magpies
Chack chack chack
Maybe
There is something
I can’t see
Misted window
Shoulder pain
I sit
And I watch
Waiting for… Read More
Eye to Eye
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North East
I can smell plum
I can taste snow
The mountain
Might not have woken
But the sound of the stream
Is growing louder
Wrapping my coat
Around this cold frame
I walk towards the storm… Read More
Snow Plum
My cold
My January
Though the notes
Are there
They cannot be heard
For the mist
That covers this mind
It descends on
Everything
The frosted pine
The frozen ground
The breath betwe… Read More
Mad Swirl: Shadow Painting
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Mountain Song
Today
We climb different peaks
Tonight
We gaze at the same moon
Without a destination
Without an expected time of arrival
There is
No end to this beginning
And there is
No beg… Read More
Some Thing
If I can’t sit
I will walk
Shake the dust
From my bones
Stretch the
Ligament warm
No need
For a dopamine hit
No need
For a bottle
Or pill
They are for yesterday
Not for the… Read More
Eleven
Cold night
Frosted moon
Winter
Has arrived now
I stretch my legs
I work my knees
That muscle change classic
It calms the breath
It mends the focus
It empties what
I do not need
Come… Read More
Kaishakunin
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August Brocade
XIX
I’ve travelled far
But find the world small
The heavens
Do not appear any larger
The path remains quiet
The ancient present
The bright silver moon
Is the tip of a h… Read More
August Brocade
XVII
What now
What then
What ever
I throw the badge
Into the stream
There is no need
To spin a web
No need to
Step across the burn
It will go
Where it goes
And where it has
A… Read More
On the Edge
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August Brocade
XVI
A hilltop farm
A gravel path
I knock gently
On the cabin door
Far from the city
And its industry
It feels good
To take off my boots
And put down my heavy pack
Together &n&helli…Read More
August Brocade
XIV
Tonight
There is no bridge to cross
No cowhide clothes to wear
Our day has gone
I spoiled the wine
The kingdom gates are locked
Staring at the silver river
I raise this c… Read More
August Brocade
XII
The hills lift up
The valley green
The black cows form
A diagonal
Relax
Breathe in
Deeper still
These paths
They wander
Where they will
In tones of blue
And shades of ora… Read More
August Brocade
XI
When people ask
What do you do
I reply
I’m doing fine
Of course
Some
If not most
Do not understand
They ask
Why I’m not concerned
Pointing upwards at the sky
I… Read More
August Brocade
X
On the table next to me
The rice wine smells foul
It is hard to believe
That I hadn’t noticed
Of course
I can see the loop now
How it was cut
And what stitched it tog… Read More
August Brocade
IX
The road to the north
Floods the embankment
With dreams
My hopes and my fears
They shimmer in the headlights
My soft coat – a pillow
The world drifts out of view
I h… Read More
August Brocade
VIII
Chatter chatter
Goes the crowd
Taking swipes
Looking down
What is the narrative
For all these changes
What is going to happen
In the next episode
West
East
North
South
T… Read More
August Brocade
VII
Opening and setting out
The moss clears from the door
No crutch
No sword
No pouch of dreams
The rain has washed the morning fresh
Rolling thoughts between my fingers
I wa… Read More
August Brocade
V
When it rains
I sit beneath
A mountain cherry
And wait for it clear
No wine
No song
No dew-drop tears
I am not the man I was
Sitting here
Watching listening
The grey fades… Read More
August Brocade
IV
Two old friends talked
A thousand miles apart
The distance between them
As clear as it once was close
Not one other person
Remembers their conversation
But sometimes in Au… Read More
August Brocade
III
From the light of the lantern
I paint with shadows
A young woman from Kunming
A model from Tokyo
Loose and not dense
I do not need the details
Their flickering strokes
Op… Read More
August Brocade
II
When the rain is heavy
The pond overflows
When the full moon appears
The silver birch glisten
Buffeted by
The strong August winds
I take off my pack
And throw it away
This… Read More
August Brocade
I
The summer days quicken
As autumn appears
This Tuesday
This Wednesday
I stitch at their pace
This forty
This fifty
They spool with silk thread
This clear moon
This tiger
A… Read More
Thank You
I pluck peaches
From fresh air
And paint them with pictures
Long forgotten
By the busy town
I don’t mind if no one sees them
Their flashes are my blue sky
This blind faith … Read More
昙花一现
That face
That figure
They are but
Dust on the mirror
No
Don’t try to be clever
These words will not help
If I start heading north
I won’t arriv… Read More
Five Fields
Behind the river
I stand alone
Watching the moment
Passing through me
Bell bottom
Drunk
High as a kite
How many lifetimes ago
The decades bent
The clear bottle shards
The taperi… Read More
XIX
This year
I will be direct
I will not take
The route that I am given
I will take a card
And turn it over
And say exactly what I see
A blonde-haired man
Sits upon a horse
His gaze fixed… Read More
Home Truths
Far from the profits
But not the prices
I watch the
Morning light appear
Back from the city
And its crowded transport
I can taste fresh air again
A small thing
Perhaps
A good th… Read More
Hot Summer Night
My account
Is running out fast
The summer
Has all but ended
The news is not good
The heat is extreme
My shoulder disturbs me
It keeps me from sleep
Sitting back down
By the… Read More
修持
In July
When the rain stops
I pick up the wooden sword
The movements appear
The dance resumes
Doubt no longer swirls in the gloom
From east to west and in all directions
Th… Read More
Instinct
I cut the mesh
But it will not move
It does not know
Its head from tail
In and out
The snake winds itself
Trapping itself tight
Again I try
To help it free
But still it will not go… Read More
See You
A rooftop of birds
A small bag of rice
A band for my shoulder
And a hungry old cat
That is the view
Four thirty-six
Outside
I sit down with my tea
And I watch a plane cross the sky… Read More
Searching
Red lines the clouds
And mud lines the path
The day sinks with the fading light
And with every step I take
I look to the left and I look to the right
I hear the tune from a bambo… Read More
在答复
My friend
This will come
As no surprise
But I have learned
What you told me
I have ended up
Back where I started
And the world has
Turned away
Of course
Sometimes
I… Read More
Chrysanthemum
I lie down beside
The sleeping giant
To smoke
And then watch
My dream burn away
This cathedral of light
These walls without walls
As brilliant as blue
As perfect as pink
This… Read More
Golden Thread
With early July
The heat arrives
And the world begins to slow
Likewise
I take off my coat
And put my boots away
There is no need for extra things
The red poppies bloom
And the… Read More
La Même Chaleur
Is it?
Or is it not?
It is hard to know
I have read some
But I’m not convinced
And I have read others
Which leave me concerned
It is complex
This violent structu… Read More
Country Idle
White gull
Blue sky
Early morning
Right now
Is the only time
I feel at home here
Listening to a Muntjac
Drinking coffee
Waiting for the people to stir
Right now
There are no ch… Read More
Disrupt
It is true
Only certain people
Need to know about
Certain things
It is false
The focus
Placed upon the dots
And not upon the light
Infinity
Glasses
Tear away cameras
Chinese woodblo… Read More
Un Sueño de Día
The hours feel
The shoulder aches
The day passes
With flowers
With oil
With royal herbs
I bathe my regrets
And dress my dreams
With corrected opportunity
Tok… Read More
虎骨
Next week
It will be ten
A new set of bones
Old and burned white
By the dead tiger moon
Will I climb up?
Or will I stand down?
I don’t think there’s a choice
Or… Read More
Variations
With nothing
To tether to
I have started
To drift
Far back
And far away
Far from the seconds
Which stretch and then twist
Far from the minutes
Which open out to the hours
Far fro… Read More
Parasocial
To be content with little
Can be hard
To be content with nothing
Is even harder still
I guess that is
The way of things now
I have no job
No money for travel
And I have no friend… Read More
Day Shift
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OK / Crap
At first
I think it’s OK
But
Looking again
I think that it’s crap
This new chair that will break
This cigarette that will burn
This phone that will out-date
This glass… Read More
Myanmar Diaries
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都心
Step after step
Brings fewer words
Dust shakes itself
From bones
Far beneath
The mountain’s eye
We’re lost
And yet we smile
Here –
There is no signpost
No… Read More
三思
A broken screen
Makes me an exile
It could have been
Much worse
Looking down
At the great wall
I cannot see a thing
But you
This clear blue sky
Is engineered
My thoughts
Th… Read More
Betel Nut Stains
They’ve found a bomb
At Shwedagon
They say
They say
Beer station jihad
Fueled by
Cheap whisky and soda
More talk –
More enemies
Blood red betel nut stains
&cop&helli…Read More
围场
How long has it been?
With neither care nor attention
The grounds have grown wild
Top down
Bottom up
I don’t know where to begin
Sitting down I contemplate
Not the wo… Read More
Sin Forma
A reflection
A thought
A memory
That is what
These words are
One image placed
On top of another
It could be true
Or maybe not
It depends on
Which way I look at it
From over the wa… Read More
Autumn Jade Thoughts
A clear evening sky
Brings the cold chill of Autumn
I see your wheel turning south
But I cannot follow
This year
This age
They fade with the light
I wonder
Where will w… Read More
化干戈为玉帛
Tonight
Tomorrow
And now more than ever
I should stretch
In a relaxed way
I should not
Condition my mind
For competition
That is one lesson… Read More
Suzie
An Imaginary Short Film Soundtrack
Tracklist
Interlude – Shigeru Umebayashi
Shore Leave – Tom Waits
Delilah – Clifford Brown and Max Roach
Channel 1 Suite – Th… Read More
A Painted Landscape
A bamboo forest
Wrapped in mist
A mountain peak
Crowned with sunrise
I see these pictures
On the wall
But I hate the way
Their stories taste
My perspective
Has narrowed… Read More
Small Things
From under the eaves
I spy a wren
Like me –
The wren shelters
Looking this way
Then that
The sundial pools
The pond overflows
We watch and we listen
Smaller than small
… Read More
露珠
The sky
May be grey
But that
Does not mean change
Out in the marshes
White cranes will cry
And up in the heavens
New gods will hear
All dew drops of mist
On this
Imperfect… Read More
补刀
My friend escaped from battle
My home is now a room
My things are up for sale
This town is closing down
Today I heard
They are raising taxes
Expecting growth
From all that… Read More
工匠
A sneeze
A cough
They can take on
A different meaning
Early departures
Mistimed arrivals
The crowd shifts
And moves as one
From fools
To devils
They erect
Worship
And destr… Read More
A New Coat
Cold wind
Late September
These worn soles
Lead to bad knees
And this wax
Has all but gone
I know I could
But I am not confident
The flakes in my pocket
Have become a pouch
And th… Read More