24 January 2026

Primping the Pooch

Leaf 281 – Looking Back

 



This is a poem written during my first or second trip to Japan back in 2003. I’m pretty sure it was something I saw whilst wandering around the Asakusa area of Tokyo. I took the accompanying photograph only a year or two ago in Yokohama.

 

 

Primping the pooch

in her handbag,

the lady stops

to adjust its little coat.

 

 

 

 

Photograph by Tim Chamberlain