House of Dreams (HS 155)

This morning we’re on a tour. I love the tidal pools,alive with multitudes of tiny fish and crabs, and, of … More

Crazy (HS 154)

Like a pendulum, I swing between insaneand not sitting down to write.Occasionally, when I’m sitting down crazy,I can still vividly … More

Race Time (HS 153)

I fight Nazis and Japs, big plastic figures I buy with my allowance,colored gray and fleshy yellow, the Nips eyes … More

The Real (HS 152)

You will know what real is when you ridethe dreams of smoke and updraft air, waves breakingon the breath of … More

A Clearing (HS 151)

If only we could shed grief as our skin does rain.This is not like water.  You must go. Go farther down,down … More

Coloma, Wisconsin 1978 (HS 150)

There is not much left to do today.  This morning we were replacing fence posts.Bob and I have pulled stumps all … More

The Lending Kind (HS 149)

I’m swirling in the drouse of that head on the pillow before sleep,a thousand ideas swizzling around my brain that … More

Above the Water Below Us (HS 148)

The water is full of ghosts and him.  In the water.  There.A child’s eyes staring back at you. Right there.  Pointing,I follow my … More

Shade (HS 147)

The people working inside look hardly savage,as the paler woman sitting sunning outsidesays to the other paler woman, both natives … More

Memory (HS 146)

Wouldn’t it be wonderful to wipe the slate clean,tabula rasa, my mind a blank, history erased, wake up tomorrow knowing nothingbut … More

Honolulu Lights (HS 145)

In the early morning, when she’s done, she’ll sleep, dreamless,her hard work over, pleasing many, her best shots,giving everything at … More

Land of Aloha (HS 144)

It’s amazing to imagine that at one time Hawaiʻi had to be sold,a barely known collection of merely faraway map … More

Vast (HS 143)

I’m standing at the edge of the Sahara Desert,looking out upon sand and sand and sand as far as I … More

Remembering Mother Nature (HS 142)

I have this faint hope, to ask, as I self-isolatehere on the mountainside below Puʻu ʻŌhiʻa– the place that foreigners … More

You Cook with Gas (HS 141)

With you, every day is lemon meringue day,that balance of sweet and sour on my tongue,huge fruit grown on your … More

One Word (HS 140)

Love, must I not have a word with you, just for laughs,see the rain, how clearly the sky bleeds for … More

Democracy in Action (HS 138)

Every one of us saw him as an ignorant ass,and the beer was cold, and the oaths flowed,and maybe we … More

With Mercy (HS 137)

The wind moaned all through the night, groaned so,making love for hours to the trees surrounding me,the two swaying together … More