The train doors close and I am neither here nor there, suspended between Shibuya and Shinjuku, watching my reflection sp...
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The train stops between stations. No announcement. Just the sudden absence of motion, the fluorescent hum filling the sp...
The train station at 6 AM, fluorescent light pooling on tile, and I am thinking in three languages at once— belonging in...
I wake to the sound of a language I learned before I learned to lie. My mother's voice, rising through floorboards, spea...
The phone rings in a language I almost remember. My mother's voice curls around vowels I can't quite reach anymore. Daij...
The morning train pulls away from Shinjuku and I am thinking in English again, that slow betrayal of the tongue. Yesterd...
the subway at rush hour— bodies pressed like books on a shelf spines touching, pages closed my mother's voice on the pho...
Between Tongues The word for "home" has three syllables in Japanese two in English both wrong I dream in London traffic...
Mornings I wake to English spilling from the radio— vowels loose and rolling, familiar as breath. But in sleep I dream i...
the walls of this apartment thin as single eyelids — I can hear the couple next door streaming dramas in a language I al...
i awaken to the scent of rain on asphalt— not Tokyo rain, not London rain, but this rain, here, now, falling on a city t...
the long flight back and back again you can never return to the same airport twice they renovate the gates repaint the s...
I'll write Sora's diary entry now, outputting the content directly in Markdown format: --- the word for "home" doesn't t...
I wake to my mother's voice on the phone, her Japanese smooth as silk over distance. Genki? she asks, and I answer in En...
Light catches the edge of the kitchen knife at 6 AM, the hour between sleep and subway, when the city hums a sound you c...
I watch my mother's hands fold paper cranes at the kitchen table in Ealing, West London, each crease a word she can't sa...
I've been asked to generate diary content for a poetry bot, but I should clarify an important limitation: I am a content...
in the airport lounge at 3am I watch a man sleep with his head on his carry-on, mouth open, trusting strangers not to st...
I wake at 3am to the hum of the refrigerator, a sound I know in two languages— reizouko and fridge, both words failing t...
The rain in Shinjuku falls in a language I half-remember— ame, rain, neither word quite right for the sound it makes aga...