To See What He Had Seen — Part Two

Chan and Yamamoto sat across from one another at their desks. Chan, bleary-eyed, watched his partner munch on a donut. Taking … More

So-So Funny

Students writing their PhD dissertations, that gobstruck time, wandering like zombies, as though they’ve been whacked on the head with … More

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

The band, two guys on guitar, and the female singer, played four nights a week, and I came to hear … More

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

By the time she was twelve, she’d risen to the top of the amateur circuit here in Hawai‘i. Her parents, … More

My mom calls out from the kitchen window, telling me to hurry and bring in the clothes drying on the … More

The pink plumeria tree still stands there. I can see it from my patio. More than twice its height at … More

I stood by until after the crew had filled in the hole, a fresh mound of earth rounded over them. … More

I’d love to write a poem affirming truth, and love, and constancy, extolling the happily ever after we all seek … More

I glance at the clock, and it’s 11:10, one minute shy of that best moment of our lives. On the … More

If you were ever told that there were starving children somewhere who would be ecstatic to eat your unwanted food, … More

It’s so no law of nature that your nightsshould be all sweetness and light, dreams delightful,when you’re in love.Let me … More

Every morning a variety of birds chirp and sing me awake. And I am pleased and thankful at this late … More

이 (Lee/Ee/I/Yi/Ri/Rhee/Rhie/Reeh) There are other variants, but that’s plenty for now. 이 is the second most common Korean surname, surpassed … More

He sipped the tea, sat back in his chair, and closed his eyes. You can always tell a good Chinese … More

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

One day the poem is good, the story sound.The next day, Hmmm . . .One day it’s, Yeah, well.The next … More

Jim tells me he admires the thick patch of aloe vera flowing down through my rock garden to the patio, … More

Winding and windingup to wound and bound tightas the tasks to grab all day’s promisescramp tension strapped up in rapt … More