Updating the site with a photography section. Here’s a photograph from a series (“Wind on Rain Slicked Skin”) published in Former Cactus literary magazine. Check out the new photography section here: jeffreyyamaguchi.com/photography.
A coldest of days
forges a crystal palace
rule lasts a moment
This poem and photograph originally appeared in the literary journal Three Drops from a Cauldron.
This is why
we’re here
to find ourselves
in the middle of nowhere
This poem and photograph originally appeared in the literary magazine Mojave Heart Review.
Quiet descends in waves
a spectrum of where
ever sky is upon the lands
This poem and photograph originally appeared in the literary magazine Mojave Heart Review.
The slow cut hits ground
on a long day unfurled
as your eyelids dance
into the collapsing glow
of last light on waves
crashed long ago
More sea poems can be found in Always Find the Sea.
Sent a telegram to the sea
coded in wave crashes
and the ink of salty mists
Through thundering clouds
and a lightning storm
I received the sea’s reply
More sea poems can be found in Always Find the Sea.
Under a radiant sun
with gentle waves
cooling our burn
we spent all day
searing a memory
of that time by the sea
More sea poems can be found in Always Find the Sea.
We spent the whole day
lying on the grass of a sloping hill
imagining whole cities we could
pick up and move away
at will so there would be
crowded sidewalk cafes open all night
and dancing shadows seen in
candlelit windows high above
bustling, honking, lit-up streets
but also nothing at all
no one around, no coming and going
nowhere to be
except on an expanse of rolling fields
where we could bask in the heat
of a lingering sun
and drift off to dreams of us
lying on the grass of a sloping hill
Jeffrey Yamaguchi 