Tag Archives: Isamu Noguchi

Sculpture Garden Cinquain

Tonight Noguchi saves all of us from those fears we nourish in our souls before morning.

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Earth by April in January

Poems get written today using the same object as those she created 30 years ago. Obsession of a fickle mind, so many others have been targeted in between. Some even still live. She’s becoming entangled in her homespun loop. Time … Continue reading

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Pacific Saudade

This Noguchi sculpture encased in glass on the departures level inside the San Francisco Airport soothes my incurable longing for what those Big Sur rocks would not release. That he could have been my soul mate doesn’t matter—he’s been gone … Continue reading

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Letter in a Mirror

“Tainted Love” won’t hit you the way it did in 1982 when you came late to Studio 54. Always arriving early,  you miss being the impact.  Pregnant new wave singers, punk  ones already overdosed, your phobia keeps you clean. You … Continue reading

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Living Tower

Even if it was an option, it’s not  an option  to date your guardian angel, even an accidental one.  You may believe  you’ve exhausted them all, been pushed to the edge of the jetty—rocks everywhere  sounding off a raucous laugh.  … Continue reading

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Illumination Night

Summer ignites itself Methodist style. Japanese  paper lanterns Noguchi might have made for Martha Graham’s last dance  alight the campgrounds, set the island aglow in pinks, oranges, yellows, fire-engine  red awash. A crowd gathers to mingle, a child may wander … Continue reading

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