ambiguous dialect (working notes February 18

Friday, Feb 18

Nagai Kafu, unshaven, travel sketches in pencil
carpenter’s back tattooed with demon mask

such as streetcar clanks around zoo
rented room for skin

Japanese News: from school child for walks, grove he died

“April 30, 1959, his body was found, fully clothed,
by the woman who came in to do his housework”

illness conceals salmon from plate
insects, persistent skin

Haiku

clients speaking tea
sister naked with penis
obscure dialect

Tokyo Monogatari (Tokyo Story) 1953

Hara Setsuko duplicates daughter, permitting herself to film

re tattoo assignment: salmon emerge from skin


Ray Craig