Fair Game

The hole in the snowbank was deep, and as I peered into it, I imagined I was looking at some … More

Do You Remember? (An Old Car)

Listening to Neil YoungI saw your face in the fire.It took me back to Madisonand winter walks in the night.Remember … More

We are walking the area called Blue Moundsjust outside of Madison, on a sunny summer day.It’s another picnic, she loves … More

Beware, I’d heard, the staring into it too long, excessive water gazing made much of by him, for you may … More

It’s good for a local island boy to see life from somewhere else once in a while. Madison was an … More

During the last ice age, everything seemed possible. It was a fine time, flexible for me, far from home, shivering … More

I feel you off-hand in my pocket just now,jingle your magic among the loose change,finger the coin of your clever … More

Always pictured as a dark forest in ever after land, a hollow space opening up to a cavernous clearing, echoing … More

Whatever it was, however it happened, every leap turned out a big waste of time deal, in those days when … More

It is 114 degrees, noon, and I step out onto Langdon, stealthy, my eyes darting everywhere, see someone coming, sit … More

My first winter in Madison The coldest winter since they began keeping track The temperature plummeting into the -60s with … More

We’d known each other, worked together in the record store, for nearly six months already. By the time she came … More

It’s hard,the forever of never.I’d love to stay completely absorbed in the present,but I think of you now and then, … More

Quiet practice I considered a courtesy.The gesture of a considerate neighbor. The walls in this apartment complex are thin.Sometimes I … More

In Hawai‘i, my Korean half dominates my look, so I blendin with the majority, no one can even tell I’m … More

He jumps in his car and drives,from the Oakland docks, remember?and drives fastO, Death, Ralph Stanley,running round on a loop, … More

Once upon a time there was a little girl from Chicago, City of the Big Shoulders, And there was a … More

“You don’t recognize me, do you?” She’s smiling at me, a good smile, the kind of smile that lights up … More

Sickest I’ve ever been. I don’t think anyone got annual flu shots back then. At least I never heard of … More

I grew up calling the neighboring islands of our state that weren’t O‘ahu the “outside” islands, and that big continent … More