Welcome to my new blog.

As part of my activities surrounding the trip to Japan and the speech I will be giving at the International Annual PEN Club Congress in the Keio Plaza Hotel on Tuesday, September, 28, 2010, I wanted to chart my path.

I plan for this to be partly journal, as well as report, of these very special days.

Yesterday started off well with many new tanka which I hope will be the backbone of these blogs.

poet of lines

pencil and wordless

drawn

in circles and spirals

your story of space

This one I put on the copyright page of the book I am making to take with me, Taking Tanka Home, under the line about the cover drawing being one made by Werner.