A Word to the . . .

Every second on the clock I learnA second’s more something.Even asleep dreams tickTheir teachings to me,Reassembling information accruedThrough years, mixing … More

Some daily affirmation

I swearIs what I needIn truth I doTo be that kind of personOnce I decide to doI will ahead and … More

Fish

Fish             Squatting at the pond’s edge, he held a small fishnet in his hand. He could smell the familiar slight … More

A Writing Story

I have never written a story or a poem the way I wanted to write it.  Something always gets in the … More

No one is here

To watch me leaveStepping out of the room unseenWith no goodbyesThey might say if they were hereHe’s not goneThey might … More

Of course you know that golf

Is not God’s gift to manIn order to avoid Sunday worship He did not sayLet there be a vast and … More

Love Forgotten

Give away something dear sometimeTry this and perhaps you’ll not miss itReorder your brain, your heart to accept the absenceGladly … More

The Writer Writes

I was sitting at a table outside Macy’s when the elderly Japanese woman bumped into my table.  She was carrying a … More

Chosen

But that was long agoHer intentIf I recall correctlyWas to steal my heartSet me apartFrom all the othersPounding at her … More

Echoes

Climbing Yellow MountainWe take our turnsShout outThis place famous for echoesHow long will our “Hello”sLast?I manageA solid bellowVoice of an … More

Reminding the Gaps

At a reading a couple weeks back, I read a piece about some of the encounters I’d had with racist … More

The Spirit of Aloha

“So what’s so important that you have to yell?” the platform director asked, looking up at the flustered man. The … More

This Is Sacred

That flash of light from the lighthouseon the point at Hana Bay servesas a warningand a beckoning beacon The mana … More

Hawai’i Calls, my fifth Lt. David Chan Hawai’i-based mystery, is now available on Amazon

Both hardcopy and digital formats are available:

Addict

It began in early December,Just a brief 30 days or so ago,And already I know,As a 45-year smokerWho tried to … More

Live

This new year begins with dreamsShopping and love and judging a speech tournamentWith friends who live on the East CoastOne … More

Slipping

Watching the Packers this afternoon, I flash on my first date in the New Year of 1978, Madison, Wisconsin. Back … More

Unquieting Quiet

Quiet melodyA gentle mind daydreamingImagines pleasant lives picturedCut into silent stone definedChiseled shapes of unheard soundMolded solid that the waking … More

“Sneak Attack,” Episode 9 of my latest Lt David Chan Hawai’i-based mystery series, in now available on the Kindle Vella platform.

Now You Don’t

You were some sort of sleight-of-hand magician,and I still haven’t figured outall of the tricks you pulled, a tributeto the … More