August 2015
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On Richard Gilbert's 61st birthday
baby boomers rattle their sixties
chanting 'amandla!'
baby boomers ski
the downhill slope
sexagenarians shooting blanks
moonstruck
I become
its alibi
time-tide
no turning back
on itself
Is this the way the world ends?
Is this the way the world ends?
Is this the way the world ends?
Not with a bang but with a boomer.
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Glaucoma
glaucoma—
a seer at odds
with vision
light
strains the edges
of itself
astride dreams
horizons gather
to the flame
under the weather
my eyes acclimatise
to their ends
climate change
I feel the earth
for a pulse
optic pressure—
vision swells up
in words
measured—
the range of vision
and words
all dark!
between stars
my light
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see the light
in the undergrowth
where we dream
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Hiroshima - 70th Anniversary of the Bombing
Hiroshima
in flames of being
here and now
is this light?
a little boy's weight
on the wide island
rain fills
the space that was
once yours
on ones so silent
the full impact
of a scientific yes
silence falls
like a mushroom
from the Enola Gay
hollowness
rings out loud
from the sky
i am
become death
atom by atom
mumbling sky
the build up of heat
to come
a true man
without the sounds
of agony
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Nagasaki - 70th Anniversary of the Bombing
(dedicated to Kaneko Tohta)
Nagasaki
where east meets west
treading fire
a fat man
implodes in light
the long cape
ground zero
a white wormhole
opens at mass
after light
dark stains of martyrdom
on stone walls
seared through
faces and forms
at worship
a fumi-e
in deafening silence
stomped under
kakure kirishitan
keloid hands break open
the bread of words
in light
the death of martyrs
reborn
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after rain
pavements come clean
on where they led
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deep-sea diving
moon-struck lovers enter
each other's shadows
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Nagasaki bombing anniversary
fat man,
in your rain of terror
we rust
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turning leaves—
that to which I cling
stripped bare