Adrift between the tenses.

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The Ninth, and final, Farewell: Nihonbashi, Tokyo
It had to be here.
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Dheeraj Reddy Budamala
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The Eighth Farewell: Aoyama Cemetery, Tokyo
To be seated on the stone benches of the Aoyama Cemetery on my last night in the city, with streetlamps and stones for company, it feels fitting…
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Dheeraj Reddy Budamala
The Seventh Farewell: Hokusai at the Ukiyo-e Museum, Osaka
This is an allegory, truth buried in the language of drama. A story of the world and us. Fuji San, immovable, in the windy distance while we struggle…
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Dheeraj Reddy Budamala
The Sixth Farewell: Fabrics of a lost culture
The opportunity to touch history is not something that falls to us often.
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Dheeraj Reddy Budamala
The Fifth Farewell: Reading the poetry of Izumi Shikibu
He was in a Zen garden one morning gazing into a rock when he felt the weight of her words rush into his heart like a landslide. A thousand years apart…
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Dheeraj Reddy Budamala
The Fourth Farewell: A Nightwalk in Kyoto
Tonight, you are nothing but light and I, your shadow. [3:29 am, 25th May 2023, Fushimi, Kyoto.]
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Dheeraj Reddy Budamala
The Third Farewell: Hakushu Single Malt, Aged 12 years
Light runs along the glass trapped in golden yellow spirals as I swirl you around. A little dance, of course, before I descend into the soft cage of…
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Dheeraj Reddy Budamala
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