Our local theaters do good work, bringing drama into our lives. Usually when I go, I’m happy, but this was … More
Category: Poems from Hawai’i
Tourist
Tourist I’m walking the neighborhoods of this small Scottish village. It’s too tiny to be called a “town”; maybe it’s … More
The Hours
The first time I read Mrs. Dalloway I was quite young, 21 maybe. And I was struck by her age, 51, and … More
The Sublime
It’s a sight I used to anticipate several times a year. The area on the Big Island of Hawai‘i known … More
Happy Some Before Dawn
Quieter, still quieter, quiet down the energy pent up today, for such recklessness cannot sit wasting by the window ledge … More
What Is Your Favorite Color?
I often remember who I am, and I recall past events,both recent and distant, with a fair degree of accuracy.If … More
Each Journey a First
The idea is knowing I can go somewhere, and I amcreating the first pattern of steps no one has ever … More
On Leaving
As porous as air, sliced Thin, I fall between See you way over there perhaps, or Not, maybe hear your … More
When To Come
What does it really mean to arrive fashionably late?What, you’re too busy with your important life to show up on … More
Withdrawal
You have seen the way this hand withdraws before, the slow move away and fall of silence layering into sand, … More
And in our battle, they were taken
Both sides said a cross of little and big things to each other, and given the way the conflict played … More
Saving Face
That is some face framed by snaking black hair right behind the glass highly visible precisely to be so seen … More
Little Birds, Big Show
Here’s my rough draft for today, Thursday 01.27.22. Little Birds, Big Show This morning on my walk around the Ala … More
The Music of Marriage
Here’s my rough draft for today, Tuesday 01.25.22 The Music of Marriage A friend of mine whose husband collects recordslaments … More
To Cover or Not To Cover (Just in Case)
Remember the first time you damaged your phone dropping it?I’d never dropped my phone at all ever, so the first … 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
This Sweet Work’s Worth
It’s coming again, like some slouching beast. I see all the drooling signs in the stores, the ones that make … More
Another Friend
Here’s my rough draft for today, Thursday 01.20.22 Another Friend He was a ball hog. You should have seen him … More
Giving up Coffee for Good
At the destruction of the world I sipped coffee that was too hot. Like everyone else, I’ll guess, I didn’t … More
It’s ending a lot to look like Christmas
Nordstom finally took down their Christmas window displays. They’re not the last store at Ala Moana Shopping Center to do … More
