Good Buy

I smiled as I put on the white cotton gloves. All of us were required to wear them because the … More

Paths

      — one more for Willie Nelson I remember like the hovering of birdsHow they settled on the water and we … More

Saying I Love You

                            for Willie Nelson My silence was my worst mistakeNot saying the same, I know, must have hurtBeing unsure of what … More

It’s Just Not True

Time falls out              visions wash awayHope holds on              making plans for meFaith keeps pieces              stored in empty roomsAs I dream … More

Some Change of Scenery

We should take the road homeWe should go backIt’s time, we both agree Nothing can express wholy this late summer … More

Hallmark Moments

I’d been in the Midwest for many years, gradually working my way up the ladder to district manager for a … More

The Weight of Words

I loaned Duke my first edition of Fitzgerald’s Collected Short Stories, but when – after what I thought was a … More

Black or White

Randol explained to me one timeThe difference between black and whiteOne slims, the other does notEspecially when someone’s taking your … More

In the Next

I appreciated the raise you encouraged me to ask forEuphoric like hopscotching over an imaginary lineSensing the end of some … More

Let There Be Peace on Earth

Five consonants and three vowelsCombine to create 28 charactersThe Korean alphabet“Hangeul”A simplified writing system for the peopleIts ease of comprehensionPromotes … More

Going, Going

We are seat mates from O’Hare to HonoluluHe lives on an island between Hawai’i and AustraliaI’ve not heard of the … More

Flying My First Kite

We run together in the strong windThe two of us launching my first kiteHe’d made for meCutting and gluing the … More

Death on the Nile

Is it true, my guide asks, that America views this as a third-world countryThat we consider Egypt’s development to be … More

One Way of Looking

This morning while I was working in the yardI looked up and saw a mynah birdPerched on a limb of … More

On the Clock

The catch is always just one slip upIt fits as an apt prescriptive descriptionI’m what I’ve become so here I … More

At the Bar

I felt the slight pressure on my shoulder The kind that promises the ride of your life, Before you read … More

The Swans at Wells

An elderly gentleman beams red-facedNeatly bearded and dressed in a black tuxedoHe stands in the park feeding birdsBehind the Wells … More

The Bird Lady of Āliamanu

She was a lover who’d found something to love wholeheartedlyEveryone knew her as the Bird Lady of Āliamanu IntermediateThe school … More

The Former Bird Lady of Queen’s Surf

My maternal grandmother often went to Queen’s SurfWhere she’d sit and feed the birds They recognized her and would flock … More

The Bird Lady of Castle Memorial

She had a thing for birdsMolded out of clayWoven with yarnEmbroidered on her clothes She did that with the Aloha … More