Category: writing

• 6 Sep 2008

  some older journal entries

  6/24/08 — Kathmandu, Nepal — I sit on the edge of a bardo, one of them uncountable bardos-within-bardos-within-bardos of this life-bardo, physically on a seat in Garden Kitchen restaurant, but not quite on the edge of it. Garden Kitchen is a pleasant eating establishment right across from the lavish, by Nepali standards, house where I…
• 6 Sep 2008

  September 3rd, 2008

  09.03.08 I lay in bed under my lone purple and white-spotted comfortor in my bachelor pad near the TV Tower in Darjeeling. I wrestle, or am being bombarded (to put it more in-line with its felt-sense) with bouts of moodiness, depression, vagrant thoughts, and a general psychological and physical feeling of unwellness. I once again…
• 24 Mar 2008

  3.17.08

  Bir, Himachal Pradesh, India Sitting in the green grass and dead brown leaves behind the infamous Bir Snooker Hall, where most of the less than totally wholesome, though still generally kind-hearted, members of Bir’s Tibetan rogue’s gallery spend a large portion of their time. Despite its somewhat shady locale, this place is a wonderful one…
• 23 Mar 2008

  Japan Poems 1

  Composed in Iga-Ueno Shi and Kyoto, 2005. it’s not as if the scattered brick-chips mind if they trepass on the stepping-stones *** the moth flies into the side of the bread bag and turns back around, trying another way. he hides behind a box of Japanese hot cocoa mix and veers once more toward the…
• 23 Mar 2008

  more haiku composed in japanese

  some more haiku poems I wrote when in Japan in 2005. In Japanese with English translations. goko o kaite sensei to itta “itsutsu no ka?” write five poems the teacher said “five?” *** kokoro ni wa taiyou nitte’ru sonna koto in my heartmind it looks like the sun — that kind of thing *** onnanoko…
• 1 Mar 2008

  writing as re-programming

  Writing is a most powerful form of programming, of spell casting. By giving inky flesh to ideas, those ideas become more real, more palpable. Their potential to manifest becomes stronger. Their potency is thickened. If one wants to re-program oneself; if one wants to express one’s innermost thoughts, feelings, and inspiration; if one wants to imprint…