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SEQUENTIA
Jane
Joritz-Nakagawa
walking
my imaginary
dog and pretending
to make
dinner i
avoid looking at
sad
buildings because
the world
has suddenly turned
quite
somber
i would
like to liberate
the past
from the future
for the
sake of all
fallen
people
though
you can't get up
up the
song rises
as if to
meet someone
a group
of demonstrators
red sun
in my eyes
a sense
of home evades you
and today
the world seemed to be just a scene
and my
true self merely my subconscious
i talk to
strangers
eating
tasteless food
it's
never a happy ending
Recent
poetry books of Jane Joritz-Nakagawa include "incidental music" (BlazeVOX,
2010), "notational" (Otoliths, 2011) and "Invisible City"
(White Sky Ebooks, 2012). A broadside, "blank notes," is
available from Country Valley Press (2012). Forthcoming work in 2013
includes the chapbooks "Season of Flux" (quarter after press, with
photographer Alexis Alvarez) and "absentia" (Mid-June, Dead Man
Publishing). Jane lives in central Japan and can be reached at
janenakagawa AT yahoo dot com.
Jane, I like walking imaginary dogs, too! This one, for me, is, intentionally, I suppose, difficult to swallow. Is it the speaker or the strangers who are "eating tasteless food"? I guess it doesn't matter, or does it?
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Jane, I like walking imaginary dogs, too! This one, for me, is, intentionally, I suppose, difficult to swallow. Is it the speaker or the strangers who are "eating tasteless food"? I guess it doesn't matter, or does it?
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hi! Jeff This is a very belated reply as I just found your comment! but I tend to like intentional ambiguity in poems allowing the reader to decide such matters on her or his own I guess!
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