Gone

I heard about it by word of mouth, you knowThe way gossip starts small as within a familyThen blows outward … More

Was It Only a Moment?

Losing pages dog-eared as my life like chapter timesRead my path like a book left fading on a pale benchWhen … More

Sunset

I have to be on a south side beach to experience the glory of a Hawai‘i sunsetAn unobstructed view between … More

To Books Never Read

The shelves, like his mind, are stuffed with booksAnd there are piles of them, neatly stackedOn tables throughout the houseMore … More

This We’ll Sell

I ask why she’s visiting Hawai‘i, and she tells me it’s to see her brotherHe’s stationed at Fort Shafter and … More

Like a Dentist

The staircase only goes to the second floor, but when I look up from the bottomI see eternity stretch out … More

The Haunting of Permanent Night

The moon may go down, but the night never endsHere where we mingle with the spirits of the deadIn the … More

Roots

He stops drilling into the root canal because I raise my left handTrying my best to hold back a world’s … More

Wistful

Very soon, she said, maybe next weekHer face pressed against the pillowDamp from this night we sweated in the humidityOf … More

Madness

When B.H. told me he was madI wasn’t sure what he meantSo I asked if he referred toAngry or crazyHe … More

From Soup

It hardly came as a shock.  Responding to the doorbell, Lucy opened to front door and found another box from Amazon.  She … More

The Dimming of the Day

On the night I died I dreamt those twilight dreamsThe way you fever dream when you’re half awakeI saw my … More

This morning I see yet again that they’ve ignored my request

The male is quiet, very quiet, a stealth travelerHe meanders with his wife and babies, searchingFor food, it must be, … More

Life’s Music

I wake up singing from time to timeThe omen’s good or maybe notDepending on the song, of courseThe day is … More

Trap

“What do you mean, you give up?” “I’m telling you, it’s not what I expected. It’s too hard.” “When you … More

July 8, 2024

My dad would have been 105 years old todayHe died in 2009 at age 89 in a nursing home He … More

Twinge

It was that twinge you get, a quick spine shiver, like when you find an object that turns out to … More

The Weight of Words

I loaned Duke my first edition of Fitzgerald’s Collected Short Stories, but when – after what I thought was a … More

One Way of Looking

This morning while I was working in the yardI looked up and saw a mynah birdPerched on a limb of … More

The Birds of Kuykendall Hall

There was an inspirational reason behind the design detailThose novel three stories of floor-to-ceiling glassThe grand transparent window walls of … More