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.

A Cleaning

Since the time he’d had braces as a kid, he’d been a floss-aholic.  Any food particle between his teeth drove him … More

A Pairing

Sometimes it felt like everything came down to a beautiful struggle in the dark, the work and work until she … More

Missing

If she’s told them once . . . well, she has told them once, hasn’t she? Hasn’t she?  It’s hard to … More

A Helpful Kind

He’s always thinking about other people, more particularly, what he can do for this family.   Barbeque perhaps, bake some muffins, … More

Gambler (HS 124)

I run across the street, against the red light,to get out of the downpour.  I have no umbrellaagain. I never know … More

Gallery

So, yeah, that’s the last one there.  None of themare perfect, of course, none exactly to my tastes, really,but I’m no … More

The Work

The plaque says 1909, I read as I leanupon this venerable stone wall, and can seesomeone laid these stones, fit … More

No More

I remembered how Russ Feingold, from Wisconsin, stood before the U.S. Senate and cautioned them not to approve authorization for … More

The Brakes (HS 123)

Near seven decades of run on, sentenced to a worn and hazy neatlythere you go, so you’ve slowed, you slowly, … More

When I Travel

The idea is knowing that I can gosomewhere, and I am making the firstpattern of steps, no one has ever … More

Rain (HS 122)

Starts a bit of off-white in the corner of your eye, a smallstorm cloud, a tiny spy, that spot, surveillance … More

Pacific Specific (HS 120)

When they come, it’s a surprise cook up somewhereplunked potluck between here and — that Idon’t really know free range, … More

Exit Laughing

Being able to tell a joke is an art,rolling helter-skelter over a rough patchof cobbled words to a smooth finish,kicking … More

In the Forest

It was very strange, wandering there in the woods of Cape Breton.  I had just finished 10th-grade.  My folks and I were … More

And Counting

Another summing up from the lectern,that all told coming, maybe the biggestword problem we’ll ever solve.Who said they’d never need … More

Christmas Spirit

It’s the week before Christmas. I’m in a store at Ala Moana Shopping Center, that conglomeration of places that speak … More