Psst

You know that’s a word, right?It’s one of those onomatopoeia types.Those that come from a sound.Like when you’re trying to … More

Real Good Poems

How hard should a reader have to work to get something out of a poem?Would digging a hole to China … More

A Funny Bone Tickled Razor Teeth

The sea rises and falls helpless under the moon waves roll on their cover – in sunlight birds dove and … More

Flight

It’s funny, I thought – on the non-stop to New York,staring out at the little pockets of light spread againstthe … More

Episode #7 of my third Lt. David Chan Hawai’i-based crime story is now available on the Kindle Vella platform

The 7th episode of my third Lt. David Chan Hawai’i-based crime story is now available on the Kindle Vella platform:  https://t.co/JpDGhZjcGR

It Was Some Kind of Production

Spring was an adventure; we were learning the ropes.Summertime, a little easier going, working out the kinks.Fall ushered in those … More

Yee-Haw!

Here we wooeee go, pardners, it’s the Wild West times, an’ the Wild South too, an’ the Wild East as … More

Choice

The consequences of confused minds would have bound us in that spot.  We’d just found majority, still too young to live … More

One Two One

We park and she says nothing; it’s getting dark. I follow in her hunting, block after block, down one street, … More

How Is It with You?

Sometimes it’s a straight line,the closest distance between two points.But it’s not necessarily a flat line.For some, yes, that’s true, … More

Episode #6 of my third Lt. David Chan Hawai’i-based crime story is now available on the Kindle Vella platform.

The Closest Shave Episodes 1 – 6

A Good Listener

I could smell it on him the moment he entered the room.  Even more than usual.  My eyes began to water. You’d … More

A Quick Trip Home

My dad used to have them outside his den. I remember sneaking down there in the dead of night to … More

No Ghosts Go Naked

If you ever see a naked ghostplease know you’re being had.No one has ever seen a genuine naked ghost.This is … More

The Pattern and Order of Life and Water (for LY)

Wherever there’s waterthree atoms have formed a molecule of H2O,and on that molecular level this bondis the orderly arrangement of … More

The Rice Eaters (for GB)

They sit bent over a creaking teak table top,this old pair aged out in days, near the limit,eating simple fare … More

Looking As If She Were Alive (for Robert Browning)

The last meaning what? This guy.I’ve read enough stories, seen enough movies and TV showsto know that there’s always the … More

Our Father

Arthur, our dad, told us all about who knew what and who to know. He was a big wheel in … More

InSignificance

On the board it says in gigantic letters:Save — Do Not Erase!double underlined, a mathematical equationsurrounded by a huge protective square,so … More

Solitaire

Two months since I left Wisconsin, packed up and moved home to Hawai‘i. The phone rings, and it’s her. I … More