{"id":609,"date":"2011-05-01T12:59:22","date_gmt":"2011-05-01T01:59:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/?page_id=609"},"modified":"2011-09-12T13:34:50","modified_gmt":"2011-09-12T02:34:50","slug":"himeji-koto-mix","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/?page_id=609","title":{"rendered":"Himeji (koto mix)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object width=\"450\" height=\"25\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"quality\" value=\"best\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"window\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/bigcontact.com\/feed-player\/robwalkerpoet\/himeji-koto-mix\/r:1;t:100\" \/><embed width=\"450\" height=\"25\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http:\/\/bigcontact.com\/feed-player\/robwalkerpoet\/himeji-koto-mix\/r:1;t:100\" quality=\"best\" wmode=\"window\" allowScriptAccess=\"always\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span><strong>Lines Written in Himeji, 2008<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>Each day I skate tectonic plates<br \/>\nthe disconnect is now the norm<br \/>\nreality\u2019s a fracture zone<br \/>\nGuernica at junior high<br \/>\nthe all-girl band at Kobe Quay<br \/>\nswings American Patrol<br \/>\ntoo young to see the irony.<br \/>\nI smile and share the joke alone.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>And in the aisles of Bon March\u00e9<br \/>\nMulligan and Brubeck groove<br \/>\nlike someone took the Books of Man<br \/>\nand Space and Time and cut them up<br \/>\nthen threw the pieces to the wind<br \/>\nand they (and I) just landed here\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span><em>Rob Walker<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span><span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>(As\u00a0<em>Lines written in Himeji, 2008<\/em>, this poem made the final 5 in\u00a0<em>Making sense of it<\/em><\/span><span> National Poetry Competition, Australian Poetry Centre, 2010. It also appears in Friendly Street&#8217;s 35th poetry anthology <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wakefieldpress.com.au\/product.php?productid=888&amp;cat=0&amp;page=1\">Sorcerers and Soothsayers<\/a><span>, ed. John Pfitzner &amp; Tracey Korsten, Wakefield Press, 2011. The very basic koto and shakuhachi playing is my own.)<\/span><\/p>\n<div><span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lines Written in Himeji, 2008 Each day I skate tectonic plates the disconnect is now the norm reality\u2019s a fracture zone Guernica at junior high the all-girl band at Kobe Quay swings American Patrol too young to see the irony. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/?page_id=609\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":531,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-609","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=609"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":909,"href":"https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/609\/revisions\/909"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}