Posts Tagged ‘poetry’
Tsunami
Soma city in Fukushima prefecture was my home for two years in my early twenties. It is, what is left of it, just south of Sendai. Friends I have managed to contact are alive, stoic, and commendably Japanese. I’m still hopeful about others, but I taught literally thousands of children there, some of them from Minami-Soma, which was completely levelled.
This is an email from there:
Thank you Danny ! My family is OK, and my friends too. Of course I received severe damage in my shop. But the building does not fall down, my house too – We can live.
This earthquake is the bigest in the world – Magnitude 9.0. The size that nobody can imagine – Once in 1000 year?
Some friend lost their house by Tsunami-over 10m. Yurie lost her house. Tsunami came west of Nityu (daini-tyugattukou) - I saw big fisherman’s boat on the road near Nityu. Near beach, houses were broken and move in Soma, Isobe to Sinchi – Nothing. Read the rest of this entry »
Mercury Magick
Moving from the academick to the poetick.
Mercury, Oh Mercury,
Much more to me than 5 and 3,
Bodaciously, caduceously
In and out and back to me
He walks the sky intrepidly
He fools the gods mercilessly
Mercy mercy Mercury
White hot and scolding morphing key
