To fall in love with the first manIn your young life, you meetProtected from the world, you wereAbandoned on a … More
Month: August 2023
That Restless Feeling
The wind moans all night through, groans soLove made for hours with surrounding treesSwaying together far past the point of … More
3: Into the Fire
Like all of the other gawkers, Chan sat on the low stone wall across Pi‘ikoi watching the Pacific Insurance building … More
2: The News
It felt like an earthquake had hit. “David, David, wake up.” Chan opened his eyes. “What is it? What happened?” … More
1: Coincidence
I come to feeling like someone’s split my head open, like a coconut, with a dull machete. The woman bending … More
Football Season
The biggest bag of popcorn availableFathomless fancy for itCollege football season has begunPass, run, and kick into my heartPopcorn all … More
The Thing That Wouldn’t Leave
In graduate school, my social life consists almost exclusively of visits to my two best friends, Mel and his wife, … More
“My Father,” Episode 17 of my 5th Lt. David Chan Hawai’i-based mystery, is now available on the Amazon Vella platform.
Identity
Life split all about with many inklingsZig a beloved bright youth onwardYears removed sausage segmentsSliced away blade cuts one by … More
All I Need
A tableau of still spaceFloat outside of hoursI pet my dog and my catTherapeutic virtuesThe hushed three of usSoothing purring … More
Enter Roland
It’s strange what making an entrance demandsWhen you can’t quite fit like a cookie cutBend at angles too odd for … More
“Waking Up,” Episode 16 of my 5th Lt. David Chan Hawai’i-based mystery, is now available on the Kindle Vella platform
Memory Word
I wait a long timeBut it’s only quietFor a last wordA stone carvingKneeling silenceRust in the rainNo heart creaks joyThe … More
An Old Story
The Ring doorbell, with its announcement that “someone is at the door,” always sets Doris off. She’s a good watchdog. I’m very … More
A Ghost Story
Those faraway eyesThe child comes to meSadness in this dreamThat weighs down my chestAll the next day and beyondHard breathing … More
Chapter 26: Mysteries Solved
It seemed like a year since we’d been able to relax when we met at the Blue Light. The four of … More
Do Not Try To Pet Bears
Australia, how would you know this?Barren of bears as AntarcticaAnd all your penguins silent on the subject No bear has ever … More
About Time
No cajoling or encouraging necessarySilentSome say sinisterPlaying peep at meOld-time kids’ cardboard periscopeI don’t have to spyTo know you’re thereIf … More
Chapter 25: You Only Live Once
Not since the first time he’d entered the Daoist monastery did Chan wonder about surrendering his service revolver. But he did … More
Chapter 24: What I’ve Become
Masks. My son disappeared on Halloween. I’d thought I’d lost him. But a month later he was rescued off a tiny atoll up … More
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