Returning years

My pictures

7 hours of marking, a matter of choice.

Neurotransmitters

unfathomable, vast and empty.

Apoptosis and the death of cancer

always on a journey, ill

DNA and a cause for everything,

a mutation here

and a blue-eyed wonder boy there.

 

In the end,

I wanted to howl like Ginsberg

to feed my patience.

To learn to think,

and clean a wound that won’t close.

Another shadow in a fading light,

a vast and empty hole.

Blackout

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My picture: Electricity loss is a common occurrence…so when it happens (as it did tonight)…I try and be creative 🙂

No power again tonight,

a field of evening silence.

Shadows caught on nails

and poems by candlelight.

 

Distant mountains muttering thunder,

releasing the clouds

one by one….. by one.

As the wildflowers,

let the years slip away.

Halcyon days

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My picture: My apartment….

Years ago I was living in a different place,
writing at that window facing the main street.
And then you came by…..
lightning guided by the gods.
A sea of cherry blossom, wave after wave.

And now…..
I write at a different window, facing East.
But with traces of those ancient moments,
and stones here and there.
A shade of a white willow tree.

A suggestion

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My picture: an early morning poem…I was very tired 🙂

I talked with a friend tonight, it was late

She told me I was different,

that I cared about China.

So I told her. …..

“I just want to write… just well enough
to make an end”