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- Poetry & creative work
Once I Catch You, I Won’t Let Go
Lyrics stage a lovers’ exchange around a secret meeting place, jealousy and the uncertain future of their relationship.
- Poetry & creative work
The White Chrysanthemum: A Fragrant Life
A poem links a white chrysanthemum with remembered youth, a singer’s love and the solitude of passing years.
- Poetry & creative work
Fragments of Ugetsu: The Kutsuki Chapter
A prose work draws on Ugetsu, classical ghost stories and the landscape around northern Lake Biwa to explore love, resentment and lives disrupted by turmoil.
- Poetry & creative work
One More Straight Pitch, 2023 — Jun Hayama
Lyrics look back on the exuberance of the bubble years and resolve to find new energy rather than settle into a quiet retirement.
- Poetry & creative work
Women in Romantic Painting
A discussion of paintings of women focuses on expression, elegance and unsettling imagery, with four reproductions accompanying the text.
- Poetry & creative work
Romanticism in Ancient Sites
An introduction to four paintings of temples and historic sites, discussing their colour, atmosphere and sense of enduring history.
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Petals
A poem follows a solitary walk beside the Meguro River, where falling cherry petals evoke lost love and words that linger.
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The Scent of Plum Blossoms
Plum blossoms on a mountain path awaken memories of walking together, jealousy and the sadness of separation.
- Poetry & creative work
The Vacant Lot
Memories of childhood adventures with an older brother return on the anniversary of his death, long after the vacant lot has disappeared.
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Jun Kawada’s Manchurian Travels and My Poems of Life
Reading Jun Kawada’s Kasasagi prompts new tanka, poetic responses and reflections on travel, history and personal experience.
- Poetry & creative work
Thinking of You
A work alternating song and spoken recitation considers empathy, mutual understanding and the wish for love to be returned.
- Poetry & creative work
Driving with You
A poem imagines protecting someone whose hidden sadness the speaker has noticed, with a night drive becoming the beginning of a romance.