June 14th would have been Ko Murobushi‘s birthday. June 18th will be the 5th anniversary of his death. He was one of my butoh teachers.Last year I wrote some words for his birthday, but did not publish them at that time. I reworked them now into something better than before; maybe. The words are not adequate, …
Category Archives: poetry
Flowering Forsythia
I’ve been in lockdown for a month. An itch to cross the border comes over me now once in a while, but with about 2000 known cases of the virus in the San Diego county, why would I want to go up there? After all, I could remain south of the border, where there is …
How We Hang
I am no tarot card expert but I have come to this conclusion: The Hanged Man card is most representational of the Film Extra. A modern deck could include a card called Film Extra and it would still be all about surrender, non-action, yielding… Extras are things fluctuating between living beings and set props- Between …