Partie Un

The star gazer, atop his tower, sends out his learned eye

Far, far into the darkness, beyond the deeply blue night sky

Eye spots a certain swinging, a gently swaying, cosmic dance

Reams of stars, astreaming, in an elliptical advance.

Static, yet arresting, how is it moving when it’s nought?

Nerves are sent aflaming with this single searing thought.

Is it season, time or random? Is there reason for alarm?

What is it? Why is it? How is it? Does it mean some harm?

To be continued...

(Penned Jan 22, 2010) 

Cultivation (Dorothea Tanning)

Cultivating people can be arduous,

With results as uncertain as weather.

Try oysters, meerkats, turnips, mice.

My mouse field was a triumph of

Cultivation—pink noses poking

Through quilts of loam, scampering

In the furrows—until the falling

Dwarves (it was that time of year)

Began landing on my field. Fear for

Its harvest had me down on hands

And knees muttering, “Not here,”

My nails clawed at tangles of fat

Dwarves crushing mouse families.

Then, unbelievably, it was over.

By morning every dwarf, maddened

By nibbling mice, had fled the field.

Now, as before, each day, dozens

Of perfect mice leave for the city.

There, they have made many friends

Among computers, and with them

Are developing skills inconceivable

To their forebears. Already, these

Cultivated mice and their computers

Penetrate guilty secrets. Soon they will

Prevail over the turmoil that defines

This darkest of ages. And they will

Find me, asleep in my cave.

Source: http://theparisreview.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/5987

7

Profusely suffuse 

Defused by profanely obtuse. 

(Penned Jan 13, 2010)

私の最初の日本語の詩

Watashi no saisho no nihongo no shi 
My first Japanese verse (Edit I)

夜が訪れる
眼に火を付ける
夢の小さな世界
直射日光のように明るい

yoru ga otozureru
me ni hi o tsukeru
yume no chīsana sekai
nikkō no yō ni akarui

その意味: so no imi: it means:
night falls
eyes ignite
little world of dreams
bright like sunshine


(Penned Jan 6, 2010)