( me / me )

The Light Fantastic.

wind inside me
not like the wind outside

the wind is a castle
the wind is a thought
reddish-brown roofs
& a day without sunshine

swamped by ghosts
& only rid of them with night

(2021)

“…the modern term for philosophy, tetsugaku (哲学), which roughly translates as ‘the learning of the sages’ in letter, was a neologism coined during this period by the progressive Enlightenment scholar Nishi Amane.” (via dailynous)

“down the rusty rails
flowers bloom
no one replaces you”

–@poem_exe

Tanka.