Samurai Metafiction
A pastiche of the film Samurai Fiction by Hiroyuki Nakano
Blade of pine
silkscreened
the kata of steel
Ronin of clouds, 1696
a gray samurai behaves
compose your mind, keep a temper-bird
sound of falling pines
Feet like swift birds at flight
from gray to black
steps like proud waves
Tradition at stake
the naginata falters
flicker, drip with red
bound by the tatamae, bound by the honne
an expired ninja
bound by his feet
Run the white road
as the swallow flies
the patterns of a shuriken
shadow fighting shadow
like contained entropy
water, stone, sand, nothing
raining, ask about Edo women
A lone black-fire / arcs of katanas / sparks flow
a bad face
existence a comedy
lost on the fields of valor
You're falling like a petal
pacifist: no more blood
you've met your match
how cedarwood smells
age-old advertises
Peony sucks in smoke, a consort
a cheap geisha, sic transit -
(omoshiroi, ne!)
"O-samurai", she says!
honourary prefix, honorless man
Spring chrysanthemums
a non-verbal "Stay!"
lashes like the call of the wild
a new you healing over
taste of white
rays of lust
a sub-vocal mating call~
A classical piece augmented by laughter
cloud-watching at the woman's command
is the food so good
to-be-father-in-law
clumsy ninja
music as movement
chopped-up gamblers
turn a new leaf in the tree of life:
Sweet sake swirls
swords made safe
samurai like a child,
Yakuza blossom
and the red!
_____ on a face of words
peace complicates things
a smile like a brief glimpse of the peak
orphan-complex
a calligraphic joke (is hard to get)
fighting my cough
Japanese perversion!
cut the battle
he's teaching the kids
the son of a hereditary expert failed
Throw stones and he'll flow with red
throw the first stone
pulsing, radiating steam, a mochi-pounding rabbit,
too much of a good thing,
a toxic drinking contest
let's try liberty, let's gamble with Man,
a traitor deceived
feed the fire
kill to stop the killing
background, a real beat
a sky-pledge
A giant in many ways
pre-Western non-western hero
throw rocks
throw down
a smile like a fox
throw down pray now
ame to kaze ni mo...
accept wisdom and dive
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