Tai is a poet and a basketball player. It is as a basketball player that I came to know him, but as a poet that I regard him.

In this first opportunity to speak with him we talk more specifically about poetry and his work and of course the background to who Tai is and some familiarising with his Japanese cultural roots,

Tai reads for us some of his work and there is great depth to be found in the arrangement of his words. Speed and rhythm can further accentuate the process of emotional empathising and I find that greatly exhibited here.

Thank you Tai for coming to speak with me and also for permitting me to exhibit some of your work in the podcast notes.

Here is an excerpt from june 16th, friday

the poem never ends because

the darkness comes slow

comes slow comes slow comes slow

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