First flush –harbinger of all the joyyet to bloom ©Copyright Brendan E Byrne 2021. All rights reserved.
Crescent moon –against love’s scimitarmy helpless heart ©Copyright Brendan E Byrne 2021. All rights reserved.
Frost on the ground –following the footstepsof someone else ©Copyright Brendan E Byrne 2021. All rights reserved.
Japan, 1963: in the leadup to the Tokyo Olympics, Umi Matsuzaki lives in her grandmother’s house on top […]
Another diet –losing all the weight I gainedholding onto you ©Copyright Brendan E Byrne 2021. All rights reserved.
Tiny trilobitesturned to stone in riverbeds –us dead and buried ©Copyright Brendan E Byrne 2021. All rights reserved.
Suddenlyin the space of a heartbeat –Autumn colour ©Copyright Brendan E Byrne 2021. All rights reserved.
In Japanese pop culture, a “chūnibyō” is a person – usually in their early teens – who, in […]
In a Japan that may – or may not – have existed as it transitioned from the Edo […]
Koyomi Araragi is in his final year of high school, a somewhat aloof but kind-hearted person still unsure […]
