lae astra

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レイ🌌 writer, artist, voice person in tokyo laeastra.com

turkey vulture flying close in the game flock around
photograph of a bright sunny day in tokyo near an art museum, with a bright pink cherry blossom tree and the shadow of the branches and blossoms falling across the sidewalk
flyer that reads “art exchange ftm ftx ピクニック4 (屋内) アリシャンパーク2F 代々木 4月18日 14時〜16時, アートを作ったり、交換したり、売ったりしよう！”
floor map of zine fest tokyo for march 8, with arrows and a blue bubble indicating 5F and booth A5
postcard showing info for the kuminten exhibition at setagaya art museum 3/13 to 3/22
lae astra is going to zine fest tokyo on 2026.3.8 (sun), 12:00 to 17:00. entry 500 yen. location is tokyo metropolitan industrial trade center taito building in asakusa
paperback copy of alocasia: 99 queer writers on plants and nature
lae astra is going to zine fest tokyo on 2026.3.8 (sun), 12:00 to 17:00. entry 500 yen. location is tokyo metropolitan industrial trade center taito building in asakusa
colorful art prints of nonhuman beings and plants on a wall by artist watanabe takao
holding This World is Not Yours in front of shelves of SFF books in Tokyo
photograph of the view looking down the middle of a small street lined with very pale pink cherry blossom trees in tokyo, the street is clear of vehicles except in the distance
photo of a warm, sunlit bowl of vegetable soup on a wood table
an asian agender trans guy cosplaying the character Xiang from the book The Splinter in the Sky by Kemi Ashing-Giwa
Hardcover copy of the book The Splinter in the Sky by Kemi Ashing-Giwa held in a hand, indoors in warm morning light
screenshot of Strange Horizons website displaying a painting with black background, hand-drawn thin white spirals resembling orbit lines expanding outward, and an indistinct winged being with multi-colored fringes of light around them, flying away from the center
photograph taken by lae astra of a human wearing black with headphones on, facing shibuya crossing at sunset with vivid pink and blue hues washing across the sky over the neon lights of the buildings taking up most of the landscape.
hand holding a book with light blue and purple cover and the words FWP 2023, an anthology of queer writing, in morning sunlight with monstera leaves behind it
cover of Freedom House, poems by KB Brookins, in ebook format on a tablet with a hand holding it steady
lae astra MELTDOWN AT HIGH TIDE Anomalous Press - lae astra ... I SOUNDCLOUD I pour night blooming jasmine petals into the craters of my body. Swarms of invertebrates peek out from tidepools, like swirls of dust rippling moonlight. The tide climbs
People from different countries gathered in front of a Tokyo skyscraper, holding signs. In the center is a sign of the Palestinian flag with the words Free Palestine in the middle of it.
in this beam of light I only want to continue Justin Aoba & crowd around myself slick with rain & listen to bells stolen by empty churches & meet a stranger's hands in damp earth & splash across words & white noise & cold bread eaten under thoughts suspended & when the light of ligature thins may I rise & cloud the ashen earth & maybe if there is still time let me surprise the sky & sluice the caverns of enunciation & just give me a little more time please to pretend that out there in the hail of punctuating comet tails there are still two celestial bodies: you & me Justin Aoba is watching shadows lengthen across the wall.
Evidence of Emotion says the human news after noticing an orca who swims 1000 miles carrying her child, dead shortly after birth, under watch by orca community who share the weight through wave after wave of mourning. The salmon they eat are endangered. Meanwhile, the humans continue fishing. The day that a nine year relationship ends, the expression I wear is a rough stone face tossed smooth by ocean. With nothing left to revive, I swim through four years, slowly gathering new family as my mask erodes. Tonight, I wipe tears that the propagated monstera drips onto the living room floor. Leaves outstretched like hands fishing in the dark for the quiet memory, floating between dust motes, of light carried on the back of another morning.
spacebird music lae astra crackles from a passing ship wakes the pilot from dreams of bird- watching on Earth. later, their child listens to a recording and asks, what are birds? they were artists, the pilot says, winged ones who shared my old home.
Photography of a video game ad poster on the train in Tokyo, centered on a gender ambiguous character with long dark hair and clear ghostly antler-like protrusions from top of head, one hand lifted delicately and a fall leaf drifting above, flowing robe sleeves, lots of train window reflection over the poster, and text saying スターレイル (star rail) which is probably the game’s title
Book cover that looks like the texture and color of parchment with art of autumn grasses at the bottom, and text that reads: 対訳 折々のうた Oriori no Uta POEMS FOR ALL SEASONS An Anthology of Japanese Poetry from Ancient Times to the Present Ooka Makoto 大岡 信 Janine Beichman ジャニーン・バイチマン 訳
木のまより ko no ma yori もりくる月の morikuru tsuki no 影見れば kage mireba 心づくしの kokorozukushi no 秋は来にけり aki wa kinikeri よみ人しらず Yomibito shirazu 「古今集」秋上。「心づくし」は心を尽くさせること。秋になると野山の趣が変わってあちらにもこちらにも美しく色づきはじめた自然界のすがたがある。しかもそれらはたちまち過ぎ去ってゆくつかのまの黄金の輝きである。それを思うたびに気がもめる。それが「心づくしの秋」。こちらの主観的な気分に重点をおいて、実は秋の情感を答観的に深くとらえた含蓄ある表現が受け、『源氏物語』その他にひろく愛用された。
When I look up and see moonlight filter through the trees, I know that autumn, heart-exhausting autumn, is already here Anonymous From Kokinshu, Autumn 1. Kokorozukushi: to use up one's heart, exhaust one's feelings. With autumn, the look of the fields and mountains changes. Here and there beautiful colors begin to dot the natural world. But this is a golden light that lasts but an instant and then is gone. Every time I think of it, says the poet, my heart is uneasy. That is kokoro-zukushi, "heart-exhausting autumn." Though stressing subjective emotion, the evocative phrase in fact captured the feel of autumn with deep objectivity and so won popularity. It was used in the The Tale of Genji and many other works later on.
twitter screenshot with great wave banner, Taco Bell meal illustration in a circular profile photo, light words on a dark background that read: Taco Bell Quarterly @TBQuarterly Follows you
White text on dark blue background reads: Neon Heartbreak – lae astra September 08, 2023 This morning, I wake up heavy under the pieces of a neon heart. How inconvenient. I shake them off me and go to work, but there they still are when I get home. A glowing pile in the corner, all sharp teeth and leaking color, mixing into warped rainbows. “Not on my floor,” I tell it sternly. “I’m a millennial. I’m renting and can’t afford to fix the damage.” The broken heart leaks harder.
Excerpt from a received payment for poetry, dark text on a white background reads: Note from Strange Horizons Inc.: “for lae astra’s poem “Binary Star System” Transaction Details
white words against photograph of lush green momiji leaves in forest, with blurred bokeh green in both foreground and back - Wingspread (Letter to Yanyi) a prose poem in a new constellation of Astrolabe listen to a reading by lae at : youtube.com/@laeastra
Text reads: at chosen fam house your trans dad spreads out their favorite board game at the kitchen table while your trans mom calls for you to help them serve steamed rice and miso soup into worn ceramic bowls that you chose together. your siblings come and go, across the city or the world, but they're always only a meme text away. you press send on a photo of home.
A grey-white ant with a shiny black eye stands on a reflective surface against a completely black background. The ant is carrying, as though almost levitating, a light green leaf on their lower back, another leaf on their head, and a pale blue flower bud in between the two leaves. The bud has purple and pink highlights, and has just begun to open, with glowing specks of yellow and white spilling out as the ant walks. Beneath the ant, the leaves and bud are reflected, but the ant is not in the reflection because they are a ghost ant.
glowing pink clouds against blue sky during sunset, over the lights of shibuya crossing and crowds
acrylic and watercolor painting on canvas paper of a blue bird-like being with ends of wing feathers bursting into bright neon yellow beams, pink and purple brushstrokes on their body and going vertically down the background