I am thinking of Japan

'Still alive,' a friend from Japan writes. 'Thank you for your worries,' another says. 'The number of missing people is increasing as more unmissing people are able to make reports,' writes a friend from Chiba. 'We are all safe (in Setagaya-ku), our dog and cat are too. Is N---Land shaking???' From 2-chome in Tokyo, a child says, 'It was like being on a rollercoaster!' A younger sibling, 'Monkeys are shaking my bed.' One parent, 'Of course I'm alright! I was always going to be alright,' and the other, a poet friend, says that so far, the hardest thing has been explaining the concept of radiation to her son. She emailed seven hours ago, with headlines: Heightened State of Alert at Atom Plant... and Tokyo Electric Power said it has lost its ability to control pressure in some of the reactors of a second nuclear power plant at its quake-hit Fukushima plant... She says one embassy warns its nationals to stay indoors. Another for its citizens to evacuate. Tokyo Disney is shut for a week, and hearing from each of us matters. She had written a poem about Chernobyl and is now thinking of bringing it out again. /
I posted the above about 8 hours ago. A friend in Japan has just written that two more nuclear reactors are starting to dissolve, that some people are running away from Tokyo, that young people are particularly frightened, that some of his relatives in Tohoku seem to have died. 'The situation is becoming serious. I am still alive. 2011-3-14.'
I am thinking of Japan, of everyone.
Photo: Vines, Fan Lau, Hong Kong
Text: I have heard from my friends from/in Japan, c, y, a, s, o and a.
I would like to hear from m and s.