Attention Seeker

Buzz, buzz, buzz, bouncing off the walls and down the hallto the flaming kitchen where you’ll easily be ignored.The table … More

Redemption Muse

“This has become quite the screed,” he thought, looking over his day’s work,hard as the words that won’t hold back … More

The World Can Be a Better Place

Yes, there are innumerable reasons to feel worseAnd I’m not just talking about what’s going on in the worldSome of … More

If you know, you know

“The American people have spoken”I’m American peopleSeldom ‘Herd’ I have voted in 13 presidential elections. My candidate has won 6 … More

The arid deluge comes down

Summertime in Vilas ParkShe loves picnics, he does notHer idea of a picnic lunch is cheeseFrench bread, wine, and fruit … More

Well Played

The old woman, a pale red scarf tied around her head, dealsMany cards out slowly, face up, in front of … More

The Best of the Past Needs To Be Repeated

Now is the time to show we’ve listenedHeard our ancestors who spoke and still speakPerched rocking, brilliant in their ever … More

The Book of Time

He held the book that had been hard to find and might be harder to read. The old man in … More

Daylight Night

Daylight struggled to break through all morningInto the afternoon the clouds hold onStubbornly extending their unwelcome stayRaining down on us … More

Gone

I heard about it by word of mouth, you knowThe way gossip starts small as within a familyThen blows outward … More

This Burning Wait

It consumes all of me is a dreamSinging red, yellow, and orangeAutumn’s dying days dance all downIn Korea choir the … More

Autumn in Korea

Fade in place awayRain turn to mist in warm touchPhoto glowing giftsNo buried king’s goldMore treasured than you burningA face … More

Red burn of white paper, orange glow of rising smoke

He’ll always go home in that fitting brown aloha shirtFaded Reyn’s from years of favorite wear and washThe cycle repeated … More

What Happens in Busan

Whenever I saw the ad, I’d wonder what would stay thereAdultery, drugs, murder – what threshold needed to be metHow … More

Not Traveling Out

I have a friend who told me she is ‘traveled out’I’ve not reached that point, although there’s only one place, … More

Communion

In a cave here, on a mountaintop thereKorea lives in me by bits and piecesBite-sized chunks I can drink inMelts … More

Was It Only a Moment?

Losing pages dog-eared as my life like chapter timesRead my path like a book left fading on a pale benchWhen … More

DMZ

The sounds of over there is ‘them’ and here is ‘us’Ghosts hear as if they were the honoring of some … More

Bedazzled

In eyes I see here, my ancestors’ gaze cast by manyThere’s a hardness of a kind I can’t quite identifyAnd … More

I stare at the screen, 5:00 am, Korea time

And he says, “In this line, what does ‘it’ refer to?” I stare at the line then close my eyes … More