The Wild Man

Yesterday the sun came out to play only briefly now and then on Shennong mountain. In one of those moments where I…

Hawaiʻi Sonnet 92 (So I See)

Ah, that holy moment of retrospective understanding, the aha second when everything that didn’t come together but could have didn’t…

Funeral

I humat low volume to block outwhat’s being said, try to look pastthe pulpit and throughthe wall of the church,think…

Hawaiʻi Sonnet 91 (Thriller)

Dan Brown says he does all of his writingin airports and railway stations, in between flights hereand trains there –…

I would listen to her

My mother may not have beenthe most talented of pianists,but she might have won a trophyfor painful persistence since childhood.…

Hawaiʻi Sonnet 88 (Benevolence)

I am nearly blinded by the bluest ocean imaginable,mesmerized by the constant waves, powerful blows,one after another, crashing hard against…

Pep Talk

All of you were born to do something.So why aren’t you doing anything? He shakes his fists at the air.…

How I Met Your Mother

Aiya! Again I forgot. Here’s my draft for Po’aha/Thursday. How I Met Your Mother If I were in your pants,…

Balance Question

Question gravityas we float afraid we’ll falla glimmer somethingmote of slight hopespeculate about lightabout tandem flightwished for greeningof summer dried…

‘Awapuhi

I can see I’ve kind of become my own renovation project, trying to reconstruct the joys of my childhood.  It’s an…

A Dream Deferred

Here’s my draft for Pōʻaono/Saturday 09.28.19. A Dream Deferred It was a little late in the day to make it…