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

The Circle

We all face each otherThe sun going downNot as wide a circle as it used to beNowadays a bit windedThe … More

To Books Never Read

The shelves, like his mind, are stuffed with booksAnd there are piles of them, neatly stackedOn tables throughout the houseMore … More

Life Masks

In art class we memorialized ourselves making plaster face castsA time stamp to last over all our years to comeOur … More

A Family Tradition

I remember, nearing the endBefore dementia overwhelmed himThe first thing every morningMy father read the newspaperTurning more and more oftenTo … More

The Years

Time creeps, time runsSometimes bothSometimes only oneIt moves along at any rate When you near the finish lineWill you show … More

Until Then

When I do something now that I did 40 years agoWith the same ease as back then, I’m sometimes amazed … More

From Soup

It hardly came as a shock.  Responding to the doorbell, Lucy opened to front door and found another box from Amazon.  She … More

Hum

I pass my hands over you in rhythmFigure 8s I gently rock to summon energyInfuse you with the lifeWhile outside … More

Man on Wire

In the dream that woke me up todayI’m walking somewhere in the vicinity of disasterMy old friend from the black … More

This Unknown Way

I glance behind sensing that I’ll seeIt’s only myself standing behind me I wonder why I should trust youNot knowing … More

About You

Of course it must be “you” Even though I think of your ashes As a collection of what you were … More

Rise

Legs crossed, they sat bent over the creaking teak table, the top worn from years of scrubbing.  The fare was simple, … More

Paths

      — one more for Willie Nelson I remember like the hovering of birdsHow they settled on the water and we … More

In the Next

I appreciated the raise you encouraged me to ask forEuphoric like hopscotching over an imaginary lineSensing the end of some … More

One Way of Looking

This morning while I was working in the yardI looked up and saw a mynah birdPerched on a limb of … More

Life from Death

I find these bodies often in the yardRaking, I’ll come across a nestAnd lying nearby, a baby, featherlessBrought down by … More

Last Flight

Birds have that gift of flightTheir lives so simple seemingEating and sleepingBusy nest buildersTrue, they have predatorsFrom which we couldn’t … More

The Friendly Stranger in the 1974 Black Mercury Marquis

When he stepped out of his carI stood still in Mānoa Shopping CenterI thought he was Tom SelleckBut on second … More

The Lessoning of You Knew Who

So little of you, you now knowing downLife teaching you smaller bits of selfA growing descentCertainty slides into mysteryNot doubt, … More