Listening to Neil YoungI saw your face in the fire.It took me back to Madisonand winter walks in the night.Remember … More
Author: Lanning Lee
I write both prose and poetry. I was born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii. I would like to see this site be one of comments and sharing of your own pieces. Together I hope we can grow our writing.
The Rite of Spring
Spring came mid-March this year, the first day fallingon the same day I’d have headed for my annual Madison writing … More
The Weight
The old woman sits in a beach chair, ten feet away from the fruit standShe wears an orange and yellow floral … More
A Medical Miracle
For a long time now, when I’d be eating my cornflakes at the breakfast table, I’d keep thinking you were … More
To Dream the Impossible Dream
Ever wonder if it’s spring’s choice to grow green grass and all those leaves and flowers?Or is spring coerced, preferring … More
Odds Are
It’s best to be born mid-century.I was born in 1954, just a babe in the nuclear age.If you come in … More
The Fabled Cliché
Never say a good or a bad egg.However, if there is an egg involveddo not ever assume it is an … More
To See What He Had Seen — Part One
The phone call brought Lieutenant David Chan back from the dead. At 3:00 in the morning, it sounded, as he gradually … More
Will
Will, more than ample to move your miraculous pen forward, versing out divine lines like lightning striking, always looking ahead … More
So-So Funny
Students writing their PhD dissertations, that gobstruck time, wandering like zombies, as though they’ve been whacked on the head with … More
Enlightenment
CAST Old McGann (MCGANN): A smart old cockroach who has learned all the survival techniques passed down over the last … More
E komo/kipa mai?
It’s fuckin fucked up ovah here Everybody coming not jes for play tourist But fo fuckin live, permanent kine, like … More
Photo Album
RandyIwalani LiaMickey Me MinnieLeina‘ala Robert RolandAlisha MeishaPeleMe Karen MRod RhondaEllen BettyPaul Karen LChris JonAudrey Me Kaori TinaMerle Snoopy JunkoAllison M … More
On the Way
We’d become friends back in elementary school,she and I waiting for our dads to pick us up,we’d sit on the … More
Season Signification
Summer, spring, and winter each have one name only, but fall is also autumn, autumn fall, and then somewhere hidden … More
On Writing and Reading
I’ve been worrying about something with increasing distress. Yesterday, after I wrote a poem about walking to lose Covid weight … More
Covid Calories
I walked four so-so hard miles today, the heat a little more than I could handle easily. I’m finally working … More
Bread Alone
There were no more good reasons I could come up with, no more desperate excuses I could dream up for … More
Walk This Way
She said that the way I walked was funny. I asked why, so she demonstrated. She swung her shoulders and … More
Episode #7 of My Hawaiʻi-Based Crime Story
I’m happy to say that the 7th episode of my Hawaiʻi-based crime story is now available on Amazon Kindle’s new … More
Lanning Lee 