LIVING WITH CANCER

I had colon cancer last year in 2010 and was sure that that it was cured, but now have cancer of the liver.

Life is much more precious these days.  As usual my thoughts go to Hawaii and will of course go as soon as my treatment allows.  My trip to Paris has been on hold too.  So if all goes well i will go to Paris for my birthday in Novemeber and end up in Hawaii to celebrate with my good friend Sam in Honolulu.  He is a fellow sag and we share the same likes and have fun together.  He owns, Sam's Kitchen, a great little restaurant in Waikiki.

My second book called:  Blue Irises is in progress.  It will be translated into French and Japanese by Serge Tome for the French and Japanese by Hidenori Hiruta.

I have been writing some cancer related haiku as follows

scent of sea weed
drifts into the cemetary
i walk alone

In the cemetary
around her headstone
first snowdrops

a slow walk
to the cemetary
memories of blue irises

visit to the cancer clinic
a bald woman walks by
with a smile

in the old church
she lights a candle
for her lover

walking in the rain
she wipes away tears
then smiles

she chooses a wig
perhaps she will
now be a blond

insomnia
she drags her kimono
from roon to room

now living with cancer
she puts family and friends
at ease telling lies

in her mind comes
scent of plumeria
thoughts of Hawaii
and brings back 
past pleasures