A Maze

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

Going Pro

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

Laundry Lines

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

Icarus, Move Over

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

Peace

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

No Time for Sunshine

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

11:11

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

Food Glorious Food

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

One More Time, Maybe

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

Rise

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

I am a Korean Lee

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

The Homecoming (Part Four)

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

The Tests of Time

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

I Contemplate Writing Days

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

Good Medicine

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

Unraveling Sleep

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

Preview of Coming Attractions

Spring was watching for weeds to grow in the cracked concrete sidewalks,the dazzling pop of fresh green leaves all appearing … More

Old Story

In a moment in my golden years I wonder if I’m an onion, each year representing another layer of love … More

Missing Pages

I’m stapling together revised 5-year projections,our support staff still working remotely.I love this stapler, well worth the money,handling more than … More

Kū‘auhau (Genealogy)

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