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
Jerome and Geoff, Shanghai 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 … [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 … [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
Remember when we sat together?
Remember when we sat together? The late afternoon light always softened and faded as the day shifted to evening. Our bodies moved and vibrated, fidgeted and settled, then were still. Our voices rang with endless analog layers and in every timbre and tone. We smelled each other’s perfume, soap and sweat. Our eyes saw depth, … [read more]
