We held a first party yesterday, those of us who could finally attend.After all this time being apart so much, … More
Category: Life
As Borrowed as Time
It’s as grim as it gets right now tonight when all you want to do is buy beer kick back … More
Sojourn
More seen, more said, more heard, more thought, their bags packed ever heavier by travel as they go, the making … More
The Secret Keeper
Fortunate the mother who lives the unflawed life of lore, perfect, a smooth vase, snow white, the finest ashes left, … More
Life’s Run
Milton stumbles shakily around Mānoa Valley amid traffic. Petrarch perambulates Punchbowl Cemetery perusing stark headstones of veterans. Shakespeare window-shops for … More
The Way We Walk
Once, walking through the forest where the Bayan Tree Plaza stands today,I stepped on a branch with a thorn so … More
To the Rescue
You didn’t finish the yard work, only half the bedroom’s painted.Dishes lie in the sink, and you hear the bathroom … More
A Snail’s Pace
Contemplate the snail, any kind of snail.More than 40,000 snail species slowly roam the earth,all peacefully paced, wending their way … More
All the Hours of the Day and Night
I don’t know which of the 12 hours I love more,the half that’s a.m., or the half that’s p.m.I’d always … More
Moving On
This old house stands a ruin. To restore it would be nothing short of a teardown. The folks on This Old House would take … More
The Summer Solstice
It’s the longest day of the year, in terms not about how your life is trending, but daylight hours. For … More
Time’s Gift
It’s that late hourBeer in handThe yard work done againI watch the close of the faded irisPurple and whiteNot as … More
Very Superstitious?
Here’s my rough draft for today, Sunday 01.23.22. Very Superstitious? I toss the salt over my shoulder, but I never … More
Committed to Memory
It is here now for a minute, that finger-drawn faceon the steamed glass is yours, ars brevis,fading as the warmth … More
On the Clock
I always think it’s a dream, you know, that whole today is ending now,the clock ticking me up to midnight … More
The Bigger Picture
Each year of my life, from the very first timeI was conscious of believing it might be this way,I was … More
Some Costly Free Advice
Each new door is an opening on another dawn. Yawn. I sing, “It seems to me I’ve heard that song … More
Never Fear
I’m at the age where nostalgia’s candleburns bright.The yearning for something from the pastcan beunbearable at times,the bursting chest and … More
The Remnant Hours
Rising, late in the day, the hours so strange these days, it’s time to take off the coat of sleep … More
Including Plagiarized Passages on Sections of Skin
to the reticular dermisshow a cystic cavitylined by attenuated squamous epithelium.A prominent granular layer is presentwith overlying compact, lamellated corneocytes.The … More