The Accident of Age

We haunt yesterday’s bonfiresCozy after days of swimmingAnd miles of nature walksLearned every plant and treeWe’d seen for a million … More

A Favor

The intercom buzzed, taking his mind off the view of Honolulu Harbor. “Governor, it’s Sir George Masterson on the phone … More

Because it was my body, I went in to watch it being cut up. We’d found him on the side … More

Jacob Sugai sat glassy-eyed, his cold hands folded and resting on the deep green desk blotter. He’d been first into … More

Miss Lucy Pineda died two weeks ago. She was always Miss Lucy. Yesterday, there was a big neighborhood barbecue at … More

It all changes slowly, the way we’re perceivedAs we do become more than we first meant I hear now before I … More

The kind of laughterWe laughedWhen we were 21Drunk at 2:00 a.m.The loud kindOf who cares at that ageConfident and easyBouncing … More

Near the trip end, a so long vacation of viewingtossed pasts like old glass broken to the bottomin blunted glitter … More

Each would fill eachTo brimming can as mayBut the momentComes, soon lost fingersThat slide betweenIndex and thumbA brief wax scentBreathless … More

You spot her on the busAnd from this chance sightingYou imagine the torment begins Initially, the symptoms are mildDo not … More

These words came to me in an odd way. I have been to Baltimore, to attend a conference on disability … More

Cindy and Jerry came to dinner last night, and it was awful. First off, Nani, my wife invited them behind … More