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Outside the Box: The Tsukuba Multi-Lingual Forum

The Foreign Language Center at the University of Tsukuba has kindly accepted some of my writings for publication at their journal. Here are the links to the pdf files for you to read. They’re under my real name, which I’m not really happy about but oh well. I hope you enjoy them.

Aurora

Bear Trap

Sea of Walls

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Haiku

tear my hair away
shrink me into perfection
make me a woman

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再生

It starts this way.

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大学会館

There comes a time when you must say goodbye—even if only temporarily—to a human being with whom you discovered goodbye was not an option. Since you cannot do much about fate (for the time being), you have no choice but to follow this person down to the very end of your road together, kiss your last kiss, then turn around and walk back to normalcy (i.e., the way things were before they appeared in your life). You gulp down the tears and let them harden like amber. Even if you’ve never suffered from an embolism or kidney stones, you must be able to picture how painful it must be to have a foreign object stuck inside you, impeding the free flow of whatever it was that made it comfortable for you to live alone. This crazy pebble is full of memories and hopes for the future making of new memories. It hurts, but in a way you’re glad it hurts. It’s life at its fullest. Love.