Pic 73: 汐留 - Shiodome, Tokyo

Pic 72: 鎌倉 - Kamakura

Dead on Zero

Like weighing machines

we stand tall and straight, or

lie flat and low,

taking on weights and stresses

transduced by the load cells

within us.

We are read as correct or as

needing adjustment, which can be a

simple process of fine-tuning or

complex calibration.

We can be tough and hard-wearing, or

delicate and easily damaged, stand in

corners, or are displayed conspicuously.

We generate hope and mirth, disappointment

and pain.

And when we have served our time

we move on, superseded by our

successors, who are more sophisticated,

more conscious of the exigencies of the

ambience around them.

We are remembered, revered, or put on the

scrap heap, reduced to the base chemicals

of our constituent elements.

When out time is up we stand motionless,

with our readings dead on zero, and then we

become something else.

Pic 71: 後楽園 - Korakuen, Tokyo

Pic 70: 銀座 - Ginza, Tokyo

Pic 69: 銀座 - Ginza, Tokyo

Pic 68: 靖国神社 - Yasukuni Shrine, Tokyo

Pic 67: 銀座 - Ginza, Tokyo

Clouds

I know you're there
behind the white cloud
Mount Fuji

frosty morning

white cloud

from the kettle

Pic 66: 大崎 - Osaki, Tokyo

Pic 65: 鎌倉 - Kamakura

Pic 64: 渋谷 - Shibuya, Tokyo

Pic 63: 代々木 - Yoyogi, Tokyo