Rodeo Sisters -Geoff O’Keeffe 10.03.20 I’ve slept outdoors hundreds, perhaps thousands of nights. We began as kids and would lay a tarp in the yard in the summertime with our rectangular sleeping bags with flannel deer and pine tree linings, dozing under the desert stars for weeks at a time. A little older, I spent … [read more]
I dream in Zoom
I dream in Zoom. I Zoom in dreams. An idea I want to share stirs me at midnight and I awaken. I raise my electronic hand and unmute myself before speaking. I lose track of what’s been said because I was perusing someone’s bookshelf. I confess to making my rectangle larger in order to check … [read more]
Joe The Pro
Joe The China Pro Geoff O’Keeffe September 22, 2020 Jerome and I shared an approach to dealing with the seventy factories and hundreds of owners, managers and developers we were responsible for working with from Shanghai to Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh to Manila, Hong Kong to Bangladesh, and all points in between. We believed in … [read more]
Hồng Hà
October 2010 Geoff Shōun O’Keeffe Old Hanoi celebrates one thousand years on these muddy banks. Palm trees drip condensed fog, reflected in the glassy lake. The city oozes sticky humid haze. Scooters and motorbikes surge like salmon spawn. Everyone but me has thick black hair and dark eyes. I am conspicuous by size and complexion. … [read more]
silence and speech
sun lightens my room outside the world awakens silence fills my ears
Hiroshima
be still be still be Geoff Shōun O’Keeffe August 6th, 2020 On the 75th memorial of the US bombing