Katana Bones~

Born with a blade

Spine etched with blood grooves

Archangel in kimono

Patterns tattooed into the bones

Dragon Imprints

Tamahagane soul unwinds in scales

Yakuza with laugh in the belly

Tatara in his tar iris

Her glass hand through his spleen

Love in a locket

Jade third eye

Jaded girl with katana bones

Watches world swim from a distance

Pulling memories of Ninjato man from the clouds

Born with a blade in his soothing killer hands

His blood grooves in her shiny katana

 

 

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Author's Note

Katana~Japanese backsword
tamahagane~specialized Japanese steel for katanas
tatara~furnace
Ninjato~shorter variation on the katana for easy draw
yakuza~name given to members of Japanese crime organizations

Reviews

[Pax Analog]

"Born with a blade/Spine etched with blood grooves/Archangel in kimono/Patterns tattooed into the bones/Dragon Imprints"

The thrill-ride leaps out all indie supernatural.

The tight glossary stiffens resolve.

Katana tatara rocks molten.

"Love in a locket/Jade third eye/Jaded girl with katana bones/Watches world swim from a distance"

Confessions of the weary warrior worldling/wordling wilderness wildling -- yet wise.

"Born with a blade in his soothing killer hands/His blood grooves in her shiny katana"

This fine work ends up being a meditation on a refinement of killer instinct for me. There's always a killer at the spiritual core too. "If you meet the Buddha on the road -- kill him," exhorted rowdy Zen master Rinzai (referring to iconizations, not murder licensing).Or the active aspect of Shiva hacking a village to pieces and sitting on the pile of dead bodies in meditation -- there's only God, m***********s -- hence the Destroyer when he's not sublimely aloof Love Anchor of Shakti. "Killing me softly with his song."

Living, loving, sexing, mythologizing, poetics as martial art. Bone sword in the furnace.

[Moonflower]

This was absolutely mesmerizing~

[.]

Spectacular-i'm dancing around with my sharpened katana-like pen-
tagging the walls of my apartment with poetic yakuza mantras (:

What very creative poem!

B/W

[Dream Weaver]

A beautiful Asian feel to this write
smoothe tradition...nice!

[Intern'l Shultzfeather]

See E

[Blossom]

this is amazing. the primal beauty of this is so vivid. its so animalistic.

[No use.]

a slice of heartfelt desire exploding on katana cold steel

[AlieahRose]

ANOTHER AWSOME PIECE...
=]...

[Seracies]

I loved the fierceness of it, there was this primal beauty that was woven all the way through. The culture of it too was fun to read, it gave it a depth that I really enjoyed reading.

[Ed Hart]

she walked the gantlet of outraged fortune to beat the swords into dancing words of color and song, and we all love her so

[Robin]

I bow in honor and admiration of the precise, deft brush strokes of your pen ~ one can feel the blood flow within this intense living haiga ~

love the word play ~ Tatara in his tar iris