by Junpei Tarashi | Sep 7, 2022 | 2022 August, Poetry
Like blaster s h o t s on a near miss with a light side lightsaber wielder, the concentrated energy wall is a mirror of the distinct tinted visor and impeccable white of a...
by Junpei Tarashi | Jul 23, 2022 | 2022 June, Poetry
All is so diagnosed… those always the first sat down & not healthy in a tiny waiting room, waiting for a doctor they’re lucky to wait for. This is just our days… a little boy who loves books, (his mother reading them aloud)...
by Junpei Tarashi | Jul 22, 2022 | 2022 June, Poetry
On SAWAYAMA, Rina is emblazoned in gold, eyes staring straight forward and bronzed nails tapping her lips andshe sings about excess, she is everything, she is paradise. When I was fourteen I went to a high school play for a date and watched Midasturn...
by Junpei Tarashi | May 28, 2022 | 2022 May, Flash Fiction
After she’d blown out the last candle, she informed me that she hadn’t made a wish. This was notspoken in a whisper, as if sharing a secret that the universe shouldn’t overhear, but in her usual tone ofvoice—lilting, almost like a canary singing—because she...
by Junpei Tarashi | May 28, 2022 | 2022 May, Poetry
the doctor wants to know why you’re angry. you shrug. the bees are dying. and that just doesn’t seem fair. she informs you that anger is a “secondary emotion.” that what you really are is sad, or guilty, or deeply, desperately afraid. you dismiss, but not six...
