five months of Summer
August 14th 2004 Early March in Tokyo. Spring beckons. Shop windows display softer hues and lighter wares. Sitting still for a moment on a park bench. Wind blows, birds twitter, leaves rustle, traffic swirls, glides , scrapes, travels, presses into the narrow stream. Giant concrete rectangles, perforated with glazed eyes, silent, anonymous. Bright plum blossoms. Salary man, a silhouette beneath the tree between t
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