If you walk around Hiroshima in Japan you can experience a particular history. There is the one the ground beneath your feet speaks of in the form of absence: where once searing flames roared across the landscape, burning people, dogs, buildings, and possessions; where atomic winds blew through wooden houses and the people within them. … Read more
I thought I’d share some thoughts about what has been happening this past week – an about-face by Kim Jong Un that appears to have been so complete as to be verging on the absurd, and the sudden steps toward future reunification of North and South Korea which it has put in the headlines. … Read more
The Semi-Colon and The Dotted Note (February 11th, 2018) Music sheets shuffled. Cases unlocked. Orange gleaming brass lifted out; fingers rolled over pneumatic keys. Reed tested, discarded, new one wetted, whistled and squeaked. The thumps of drums settling, legs extended; key on lugs, turning; stick tap-dancing light hits, skipping across the drum … Read more
Korea – a land of jagged green mountains between two seas. For thirty years it has been ruled by Japan, and as the Second World War rages it is far from the imaginations of those in the west. Sun-a is a Korean ‘Comfort Woman,’ seized as a girl; Mick Bowler an English soldier, boy become … Read more