fresh green chilli

we fight over the last pint

of ice cream

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Tōdai-ji Temple

we bow at the national treasure

and it bows back

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North of Goyder’s Line
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We tour the region north of Goyder’s Line and it hits me that here is a foreshadowing of the climate crisis to come; townships that used to house 600 were reduced to a couple of aged and cracking official buildings, monuments to human hubris. For sure, technology ensured that the regions were populated again but I’m not sure if we learned anything.

cracked ashphalt

a pepper tree sprouts

in centre court

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among the tussock

the calls of the spotted grass frog

hidden

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fleeting autumn

between each laboured breath

the maple sheds a leaf

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Love’s Labour
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Right now, my wife is teaching herself to play Keane’s, Somewhere Only We Know, on the concert grand. She’s probably frustrated she’s not getting it perfect, but something in that imperfection, in reaching for the right notes, generates an overwhelming sense of yūgen.

love’s labour

between the notes a single tear

rolls down my cheek

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Portuguese visitors
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The millipedes are on the move again. We live in an old farmhouse, so there’s no sense in trying to keep them out. This variety are a pest, the Portuguese black millipede, accidentally introduced in the 1950’s. Our kittens have fun using them as hockey pucks when they curl into a spiral.

late autumn rain

the new kittens discover the taste

of millipedes

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Floundering
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South Australia’s Mid-North is littered with monuments to colonial hubris, skeletal settlements that proved the addage, “Rain follows the plow”, wrong.

last drinks

the old hotel floundering

in all directions

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roadside shrines

at each town a tank listing

football premiers

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Tokyo Rush-Hour

I guess in a densely populated island country, consideration for others is as much a matter of survival as that of civility. Commuter trains packed with workers are silent for the most part, the press of humanity seems strange without the accompanying tension of loud voices on phones, people talking annimatedly, or music blasting the eardrums of nonchalant teens.

Tokyo rush-hour

not even the sound

of a car horn

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The Sound of Water
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The sound of water on tin draws me outside in the midst of a late autumn downpour. The split in the polytank, that I was leaving until term break to fix, is sending arcs of water into the air like an Italian fountain. Worried that the tank will split further under pressure, I open the outlet and flood the Bonsai garden, making it a temporary pond.

the sound of water

a frog jumps out of the

new pond

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5 Stars

My second school trip to Fuji and my colleague had managed to find a 3 star hotel with 5 star views of the mountain across Lake Kawaguchi. We arrived in the evening, Fujisan a deep blackness against the sky.

rising early

five star views

of fog

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another evening
inspirations bloom in heart
- amaranthine dreams

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Skyline

Nothing really prepares you for the immensity of a city the holds 30 million people. On the fifth floor of a YMCA building in central Tokyo, I gaze out the window, straining to find a feature beyond the mass of concrete and glass.

Tokyo skyline

as far as the eye can see

buildings on buildings

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The Trick:

The trick, I told myself, was to laugh at those embarassing memories of my teenage years that always seemed to ambush me unawares. Laughing at them, at myself, seemed to create some persepctive.

my teenage years

all the thickheaded things

not caught on camera

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giving up gluten

tasting all the subtle flavours

of cardboard

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autumn lingers

the tips of my fingers cold, still,

after washing

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on the bank

of the Tenma River

giant oleanders

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Genbaku Dōmu

children's voices carried

on the wind

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