1.

 

cloud lifting

from Mount Fuji – all

is changing

 

perfection

vanishing like the

morning mist

 

a rainbow

of white – long ago

at war

 

silent

mountain – adrift by

the sea

 

mount dipped in

cloud – can old age be

beautiful

 

waves break all

around – still you point

to the sky

 

today is

as yesterday – your

face unchanged

 

another hot

flush – now children are

memories

 

when the snow

returns to the clouds

what is left

 

sea of trees

Aokigahara

its shadow

 

One

in sight of

thirteen million

 

thirteen million

in sight of

One

 

Mt Fuji

is earth your home

or the sky

 

five lakes

so many

tears

 

sweltering

city – cooled by one

big ice cream

 

what mountain

are you a

reflection of

 

the ageless ages –

a weathered tomb

in the dew

 

 

2.

 

snowless Fuji

meme

anthropocene

 

ideals

demand

mountains

 

in the

centre

of sky

 

silence

as the snow

begins

 

transfigured

white

 

near

and far –

alone

 

swans

on water

echo

 

timelessness

beyond

the waves

 

mountain

in worship

 

white and blue

amidst

white and blue

 

mountain

cloud

and sky

 

seen –

four thousand miles

away

 

before –

and after

 

in the rain

even Mt Fuji

disappears

 

behind

the mountain –

stars

 

the world

contains

such things

 

nowhere to go

in the rain

 

stars

circling

Mt Fuji

 

without travelling

I visit

Mt Fuji

 

a mountain

thought

to be

 

what is –

sometimes

as a dream

 

weightless –

image

of a mountain

 

floating mountain –

air

and water

 

scaling

heights – of an

ideal

 

where it is

not

there is sky

 

 

ascending

silence

 

changeless –

in a train

window

 

a king

alone

 

four thousand miles

and yet

I see

 

some stars hide

each night

behind the mountain