Tag: growing

• I Shall Emerge!

  

  Kawahigashi Hekigoto (1873-1937), Japanese poet and haiku pioneer writes: 初雷や　ふるふが如き　雛の壇 Hatsu-rai ya/ Furuu ga gotoki/ Hina no dan The first thunder Is likely to shake The tiered doll stand. I feel that way about spring. As the heads of the first crocuses crown on my street I want to let out a guttural shriek, a…

  Diligent Candy

  18 Feb 2019

  Academic, Art, Creative Writing, diversity, Poem A Day, Poetry, Read, Story

  Academic, amsterdam, crocus, dutch flowers, growing, haiku, hope, in between, japanese, japanese poetry, Kawahigashi Hekigotō, learning, living in amsterdam, my life, not letting go, Poem, Poetry, ready for spring, spring, spring is in the air, transnational, worker ant, working in amsterdam

• Arcade Games

  

  There is a packet of cigarettes on your desk. It is a foreign brand; not the type I occasionally buy. It looks pristine; unlike the wrinkled characteristic everything I own acquires. My dilapidated house is the last in a row. I see the commercial plans and drawings on the easels. Everything has fine straight lines.…

  Diligent Candy

  22 Jan 2019

  Creative Writing, Gender, Read, Story

  arcade, fiction, Games, growing, home, inheritance, longreads, short story, spaces, Story