ARRANGEMENT OF LIGHT

(written on a journey to Tokyo, Nagoya, Kyoto and Nara, Japan, February `09)
 

nightflight
Tôkyô an arrangement
of lights



Setsubun
a coin operated demon
tells my future



Kanda
all these books make me
illiterate

 

Electric City
the darkness
inside me



Shibuya crossing
God-
          zilla  
as crowds of people


 

Japanese girl
   staring at me
      behind a protective mask
                   
 

Shinjuku station
the rhythm of Tôkyô
stepped by the crowds



Shinjuku  
the silence
in the crowded subway



Asakusa
skyscrapers swallowed
Basho’s hut

 

Ume-Matsuri in Ueno Park
the impressions
of the homeless                             



Kamakura
inside the Great Buddha
nothing



Hase-Dera Temple
I'm marching through
an army of Buddhas

 

unborn children
the darkness
in buddha's belly



unborn children
these tiny buddhas
in a tempelside cave




snowy Fuji
smoke                                                           
out of the factories                                




Fuji in the train window
the conductor
bows

Nagoya castle
near the teahouse
a well dressed tree
                   

waterharp pot                   
the faint sound
of life



nightfall in Kyôto yet another vermillion torii
 

Sanjûsangen-dô
I join the line
of Buddhas



trans-
parent
sky-
scraper
the
elevator
to
the
moon

 

Hôryûji  
the spring wind
rings a bell

 

Narita Express
my thoughts
already departed