At 4:00 am, Tokyo is very quiet.

The hum of my computers drowns out the distant sounds of sparse traffic. Birds are asleep; school children are asleep. The construction sites all around me are still.

The sun is waiting in the wings for his cue to come onstage. The sky is inky; streetlights dot the roads with circles of blue white light.

And I am up writing and working in this cool, quiet morning. Soon enough, the trash trucks will cruise by, commuters will parade past the house on their way to the station, and the world will wake up. But I’ll have several hours of work tucked in under my belt. Maybe I can take a nap this afternoon. Posted by kuri at October 19, 2000 04:48 AM