Fireworks Us

We were those colorful roman candles ignited, admired spectacle us,our rapid upward flight culminating is a dazzling explosion,skyrockets soaring out … More

The Next New Year

2020 hung on like the fabled in-laws of horror lorewhose interminable visit, born of some hitched up sufferer’stearful nostalgia for … More

Laundry Lines

My mom calls out from the kitchen window, telling me to hurry and bring in the clothes drying on the … More

Happy Birthday

What it is important to forget all about is this wish, in what would be your classic bated moment, about … More

Would Ever Seen

I feel you off-hand in my pocket just now,jingle your magic among the loose change,finger the coin of your clever … More

A Haunting

Always pictured as a dark forest in ever after land, a hollow space opening up to a cavernous clearing, echoing … More

He Who Hesitates

My first winter ever, my friends, Kevin and Cathy, asked if I’d like to take a cross country skiing class … More

Space Cowboys

You don’t need any money to explore space.In fact, according to a story I read,a cow jumped over the moon, … More

Remembering Jeff

What I remember of him was he never seemed to take things too seriously, the spin of him, how he … More

Icarus, Move Over

The pink plumeria tree still stands there. I can see it from my patio. More than twice its height at … More

Lost

I’m hunting once more, roaming the mysterious interior,farther and farther into the forest of memory, the thicket of heart,traipsing around … More

How Cold I Am

At this point I believe we should let what seems, just be, everything unquestioned and accepting anything completely. Let’s move … More

The Backstroke

My specialty was the backstroke,that perhaps because I associated it least with drowning,my head above water the entire time.I would … More

Eating Healthy

I’m leaning over this pot of stewing vegetables, trying to stay healthy, I’ve thrown everything into the mix I can … More

Brass Ring

Whatever it was, however it happened, every leap turned out a big waste of time deal, in those days when … More

I’m Still Here

I promised back then that if one day our situation worsened to the pointwhere people became belligerent and screamed at … More

Peace

I stood by until after the crew had filled in the hole, a fresh mound of earth rounded over them. … More

The Meaning of Family

You may have heard or read this morning’s news reportabout a man in China, kidnapped 24 years agoat the age … More

My New Hawaiʻi-Based Crime Series

I’m happy to say that the first episode of my Hawaii-based crime series Follie: The Disappearances of Honolulu is now … More

Come On

This time I drop down on my kneeTo ask if you’ll please marry meYou keep staring over my head Seem … More