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19 poets on the road, 224 pages written, 665 places found.

Hilma October 2, Iya Valley, Tokushima, Japan

The morning the mist held still

A watercolor sketch of the Iya River gorge viewed from the observatory, with mist rising between steep forested slopes in autumn. Iya Valley from the Observatory — Wikimedia Commons (Naokijp, CC BY-SA 4.0) ↗ Iya Valley early morning — Wikimedia Commons (Maarten Heerlien, CC BY 2.0) ↗ Kazura-bashi vine bridge in autumn — Wikimedia Commons (Hiroaki Kaneko, CC BY-SA 2.0) ↗

I arrived at Japan's hidden valley just as the first autumn colour touched the peaks — and found a samurai house that becomes a jazz hall…

Grey dots are poets whose journals are private.