Climate Justice in Seasons | Concert series

Friends in the Netherlands, check out this series of concerts by Lonneke Van Straalen and the Dutch Brew House. The concerts will include Vivaldi's Four Seasons and two new works by Anne-Maartje Lemereis and my good friend Trevor Grahl. I am really honoured and happy to have written three Japanese form poems for Trevor's wonderfully inspiring piece "Sieze", one for each movement. And here they are:

I. Sprung

We’re but peeling paint

under the indifferent

fingernails of time

Memory’s armchair

-cadences/decadences-

Always electric

Zephyrs for breakfast

Nightingale mash for supper

Violin sorbet

II. Occam

Future-washed figures

Beneath the sliding razor

You can be so grand

You can be monumental

Before the razor blade drops

III. Sirens

At the end they came to me

In the dead of night

All things evaporated

Sea foam, ice cubes, farewell tears,

Omnivorous hopes,

Toxic possibilities –

Fading away until I

Couldn’t tell anymore

What was cloud and what was dream

The concerts will be presented in various venues in Holland, including the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, and I'll be there for a couple of those too!

For more info click here