Here`s a little excerpt from an ongoing poem I`ve been writing while in Japan:

...And now here I sit with a pen in my hand

Trying to comprehend this foreign land

Trying to define an undefinable place

As I try to navigate through Tokyo`s rat race

Mile after mile, new sight after sight

Hard to take it all in, try hard as I might

My feet still both have blisters & my back is beyond sore

But I`m even happier now than I`ve ever been before

Seeing all new places & learning all new things

Never been so nervous since that day we exchanged rings

And where is that ring & the girl its attached to?

Want to be here, right now in this place...but with you

So now I sit here listening to these machines as they spin

Thinking about where I`ll go & remembering where I`ve been

Trying to focus on the reason for this journey

Moving slow but at the same time in a hurry

What would other travelers think, what would they do, what would they need?

What can I grow out of my own traveling seed?

The rain continues to pour, a typhoon on the coast

Now we won`t get to see a building I wanted to the most

Work continues, pen to paper, try to focus as I might

My thoughts fall back to the giant sumo men I saw last night

My thoughts on the past & about what`s to come ahead

What thoughts have been thought, what ideas have been said?

The train moves to Nikko and there`s a stairway to heaven

As the journey continues through days nine, ten, eleven

We`ve seen the history of Tokyo & the present & future

I try to relate to my own home & family & culture

I want to take it all in, want to learn & to know

To apply to my work & make my architecture grow...