Too Far Gone

I could not go with you lost on that trail you and me crocuses and cacti fields of yellow daffodils … More

Contributing to the Cause

I have been to the Bristol bus terminal enough times now to have lost count. Not a huge number of … More

Charlie calls hogs, eats um, chickens too, royally roasting marbled tunes of time draped in gold and bar-b-que sauce, sweet … More

There was a choice in the road up ahead, should I go right, or should I go left? Night had … More

It was the moment I have wondered about on occasion, that moment when your death has reached the time it … More

Jim tells me he admires the thick patch of aloe vera flowing down through my rock garden to the patio, … More

I can’t remember when I stopped dreaming about flying. This recurred often, once a month or more. I would be … More

I see them pop up.It’s not really so unusual here.I imagine the dialogue, There, you say, no there.Yes, that’s it. … More

Hanging up, I thought then, at that instant,because I was absolutely sure, 19-year old certain,the world would be shot full … More

The white smoke winding cloth about her face, pale cerement, raised off-handed, another Pall Mall cigarette lit, red pack, another … More

I teach composition at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa.I choose to spend as little time in my office as … More

It begins like the sound of unlashing whipsunlicking a soulful retreata music akin to tap dancing on sandthis shore that … More

Winding and windingup to wound and bound tightas the tasks to grab all day’s promisescramp tension strapped up in rapt … More

It’s hard,the forever of never.I’d love to stay completely absorbed in the present,but I think of you now and then, … More

Quiet practice I considered a courtesy.The gesture of a considerate neighbor. The walls in this apartment complex are thin.Sometimes I … More

You appear to glide secret keeper of the third world swim beneath leaves scattered about the water’s surface second world … More

The thought is not to dwell in the past, or in the future,but to learn to live every moment in … More

I can’t see you. Not like before, when I knew for sure, you were right behind me, always there. I … More

Did we miss each other?If my watch could talk, hah!, it would saywhat? 12:05, 06. If I had a watch … More

Spring was watching for weeds to grow in the cracked concrete sidewalks,the dazzling pop of fresh green leaves all appearing … More