Daylight Night

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

He ha’awina ka’u i ka pō nei (I had a dream last night)

Where the world of aloha I’d knownFor most of my life fell awayPulled out from under me, the nasty trick … More

Habit

Not this time. No. I’m done with all of that. I watched. Closely. I always do when I sit in … More

There Went the Neighborhood

It is a large party. My neighborhood is a quiet one. Usually. But tonight valet parkers – valet parkers — … More

From Flames

Can smell the fireand the watersometimes imagineif water has a smellthat remnant steamy scentof memories Never cared for the way … More

What’s Done

Pressing themselves, all of them, into permanent wallflowers, these young people gone flat at functions, standing still, eyes lasers on … More

Adaptation

When I was 21 and tired of school, tired of anger, and sick of hurting,at Fisherman’s Wharf, I watched ships … More

Undulate

You are reminded every time you see it, it’s there, not here, that it’s not you, you are you,  the … More

Nature Is Revealed

Where are the ones in the suits of gold,those second lookers who’d whiplash our tender necks,the heart beaters who’d burst … More

Kauaʻi, Boys, Is nō ka ʻoi

EXTERIOR. ON THE BEACH AT KEKAHA, KAUAʻI, HAWAIʻI EVENING Four friends, BEANPOLE, BROWNIE, GOODIE, and PEANUT sit on the sand … More

No Survivors

I’m guessing someone’s died out here tonight.             He’d been brought up in the Lutheran Church, his Grandmother and then his … More

A Marriage of Two Minds

“So what do you think it looks like?” she asks. We’re head to head, lying on the grass, staring up … More

A Bad Connection

       The phone rang, distracting her.  She was thinking about her husband, Harry.  She looked over at the clock:  9:45.  He was coming home later … More

NaNoWriMo: More About That Later, Chapter 20, I Draw the Line

I was maybe 15 minutes late.  I ran up the stairs to the 3rd floor of George Hall and popped in the … More