Interlude.

history sighs – along the beach, okinawa, japan

Heavy guns grunt
a still-living oral history
over the waves
and over the graves.

Power is unforgotten
amidst mountains
with shoulders stooped
in a culture
that does not forgive
failure.

Today, the guns still thunder
like a belch at the dinner table.

2022.10.21

it is written – okinawa, japan

History is written in the waves:
muffled letters scattered
in the ripples.

The hands have continued
to turn,
scooping up less
with each year.

But history is written
in the waves.

2022.10.20