Enclosure

There is no living with us nowWhen we’re all boxedInside like thisThe walls closing outsideAnd each of us butting headsAgainst … More

Thought Time Stopped

For sure with no more counting up or downWith no key sought to wind a forward sweepOr so it seemed … More

I’m happy to say that “Blood Brothers,” Episode 5 of my latest Lt. David Chan Hawai’i-based mystery, is now available on the Amazon Vella platform.

Dream Doctor

It was the kind of dream that wakes you up.  It was the kind that won’t let you go back to … More

Ghosts

That old child watches youSees you at each instant of your lifeObserves what you becomeWhat time does to youLaughs some … More

Safari

Even though a paler woman sitting sunning outside said they wereSaid so to the other two paler woman, all natives tooBut … More

A Good Life

I met a local woman yesterdaywho had moved with her husbandfrom Hawai‘i to Californiato find a better life. Her husband … More

Mentors

He always wore mirrored sunglasses, the kind the “Boss” with the rifle does in Cool Hand Luke. We thought maybe he … More

Just Before Dawn

They came this morning.  It was a gray day, the sun hidden by dense clouds.          It’s a scene right out of … More

That’s the One

I enter the vaultWhere lights never workOnly the dimmest glowSeeping through the open doorHelps me hunt In here lies every … More

Memoriam

He sufferedThe unkindestOf mental lapsesThe long oneAnd then longer andLonger so very uglyAn omen deeply darkeningTearing a wound gaping abyssThat … More

Best Friends

Very much like my fatherI try not to argue with friendsNot because we always agree with thembut because we wonder … More

Open Questions

Your savaging self asksWill I no longer be me? Wilding awayWill I realizeWhen I don’t recognize myself? Slipping from the … More

Free Lunch

By the time I saw Dylan in English class, his cheek was little bit red and swollen.  Again.       I pretty sure … More

The Music Man

When I told them I could handle this problem we faced, I was surprised to find that no one seemed … More

Yay! Episode 3, “Mr. and Mrs. Claus,” of my current Lt. David Chan Hawai’i-based mystery is now available on the Kindle Vella platform.

Easy Money

The way the old woman stared at him, it was as if she was looking right through him.  Like she couldn’t … More

Dream Burial

When I understood he understoodI answered him with OkayThe blank expression on my faceDisguising my anguishAt his answer of OkayA … More

Last Night

You chill me ocean coldThe moon unsettling nightAs you draw back your handI glimpse a raw dawn horizonOur years will … More

Living Free

Today in my yard a mynah birdCalls its characteristic chirpFrom up in the mango treeI don’t see them displayed in … More