And then for the tourists’s dream vacationit snows like hell in Hawai‘i, for goodness sake.Waikīkī’s transformed into White-kiki,and surf’s down … More
Category: Hawaii
Heritage Song
We Koreans converge on Hawai‘i Theatre tonight,all bows and the scent of garlic-laced dinners, lots of quick head nods and Annyeong … More
Of Fall and Winter
Of Fall and Winter All is vivid green here today, the sustained rainsheeting its clear wrapped folds down all around … More
Aloha Shirt Man
I’m sure I don’t have the largest collection of Aloha shirts in the world, but I do have the largest … More
And this, too, is Paradise
Here in paradise they’ll paytake me to Hawai‘i neiHome of Diamond Headpearly shells from the oceanTourists negotiate the poornight and … More
Flight
We’re off now, I guess, with your leaving here,since I’m pretty sure that ends whatever this was.O‘ahu is too small … 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
An Old Salt
“Look,” my wife says, “they don’t go all the way under.” I see but am not relieved. “They lock you … More
A City That Is Very Dear
Frances Silverwood and David Lindemanused my home, Pacific Heights,in their 1919 song, “Honolulu I Am Coming Back Again.” Commissioned to … More
The Homecoming (Part Six)
He and Mel had been out drinking with the gang, but everyone else had pooped out and gone home. Tomorrow … More
The Homecoming (Part Five)
In this post-pandemic world, travel had become trickier. On top of the health layers, people didn’t act the way they … More
The Homecoming (Part Four)
He sipped the tea, sat back in his chair, and closed his eyes. You can always tell a good Chinese … More
The Homecoming (Part Three)
His plane had arrived late. Too late to ride the party bus. Sipping his tea, he watched the old woman … More
The Homecoming (Part Two)
He sipped his tea. Black tea in the daytime, green tea at night, right? Or was it the other way … More
The Homecoming (Part One)
He sat at the empty round table sipping watery black tea, wondering what had happened to those 75 years. Of … More
Friends
My childhood friend tried to claim the sky belonged to him. As we sat there on the lānai, looking out … More
Race
In Hawai‘i, my Korean half dominates my look, so I blendin with the majority, no one can even tell I’m … More
The Lurch (Part Two)
He’d heard that phrase all his life, but never thought much about what it might mean. Maybe he might’ve been … 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