by Junpei Tarashi | Oct 19, 2023 | 2023 April, Poetry
The Banana spider has a date with the moon. She’s cleaning her shimmering bullseye where she holds court, reeling out those delicate wisps that restrain her captives. She awaits the moon’s inching ascent through laddered strands where it beckons small night creatures...
by Junpei Tarashi | Oct 18, 2023 | 2023 October, Poetry
She picks me up, CD player blasting the voices of a thousand women, together in ceremony. Leaves blur together yelloworangered passing by, as my own voice joins them, the air whooshing through open windows, in agreement. A dull ache in my belly contracts to the beat,...
by Junpei Tarashi | May 22, 2023 | 2023 May, Poetry
My son has a mouth like the Red Sea, parting in two perfect halves, the gums sprays of spit over them. Oooh ooh ooh, he cries, teething. A small nub on the lower left, white, arching, a whale. I had wondered as a child about the marine life when God commanded Moses to...
by Junpei Tarashi | May 18, 2023 | 2023 April
SUNRISE OVER EDEN, UTAH WATER LILIES
by Junpei Tarashi | Jan 27, 2023 | 2022 December, Uncategorized
I am adrift in the Sea of Virginia my little boat The Phantom Skin is now run out of gas All around me are those who know more than I do about James Dickey one (Amanda) even lives in the house...
