Cathy Ostlere
Writer. Traveller. Lost in thought.
Thursday, March 31, 2011
Seiko Taira in Ayukawahama
Forage for firewood
Lug water from the marshes
Claim a flotsam pot
Is it looting? she wonders
Or
gaman
– her endurance.
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
“Our vegetables are no good anymore,” said a 64-year-old farmer before he hanged himself.
Under the wasteland
The invisible made known
Contamination
A farmer and iodine
Half-lives hanging in balance.
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
A Numbers Game
The sea is poisoned
Iodine-131
Plutonium trace
Radiation-taint water
Time clicking, a Geiger beat.
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