Today at Tokyo Express they’re playing Hotel California!
Today at Tokyo Express they’re playing Hotel California! Perhaps, you’re thinking, this hardly warrants an exclamation mark. And certainly, as far a...
Tag: Kokura
As a flower of the field
One night it rained. I put on boots and left the house. I walked until morning. On a hill I sat in wet grass. I heard a people of strange tongue. My heart becam...
Poem for Kokura after hanami
Kokura, Japan, in the middle of April, there are cherry blossoms, like faces, eddying in alleys, swirling on pavement and in tight spiral trails behind bicycle ...
Sakura—between castle and temple
A popular hanami (cherry blossom watching) spot is the Kokura castle—a 17th century castle built and owned by the Ogasawara clan, burned down in a 19th century ...