Aiya! Forgot to post yesterday’s draft. Kalamai. Here’s my draft for Pōʻalima/Friday 09.27.19. Prelude to Some Drama It’s summertime and…

I remember glaring at you glaring at me.I can’t quite say how we ended up that way.It seems to me…

I will sleep now, to the fullest, a night where darkness is not so black as it was painted to…

What we worry about most bringsa dust of doves rising in a wind ofstartled whirl.  Fat fed flocksfor lingering over time,there…

Chapter One His death looked like it had been long and hard. The carefully sliced, mutilated body was the kind…

There are so many of us nowpouring up the trail, that there’s too muchtalking, not enough listening. We are streamersto…

I know you’re not here near the pool to watch me,as my nose suddenly floods with chlorinated water,that eye-stinging burn…

When I finally found myself I wasold.  Older than the moon when she losther mythology, unclothed by dayand science, investigator of…

pull the lamp chain letin light as dark attracts that ray of sunrisen by enticing birds who call awakeby singing…

that these are the waysinspiration fires, ideas strike,from where well up the wealthof all ideas for creative writing. It’s not…

You all know, I thinkwhat a “staycation” is, right?Either you can’t afford a bigger vacation,or you just want an easier…

In your condoI set myself on listening modeonly.  To speak would be to assaultyour space, the airwaves here are filled100% of…

He picks up the pin I’m using to enlarge the glue holes on the battleship model I’m building and stabs…

I’m holding a candle. When I open the door, although there’s no breeze, it begins to flutter, casting odd shadows…

It stormed constantly, every day.  Hawai’i was definitely sick of the horrible weather. I wondered about it, then decided to ask…

Hit me, baby, and don’t beworried about it. I knowyou gotta do, gotta go though,what you gotta do, man, true.It’s…

By the time I woke up that day, still groggy, uncomprehending an early morning email flood from friends on the…

When all the uses of this world fall flat, man,round yourself up on the certainty of action. No work comes…

Clipping coupons forever to save money,snatching at bargains, fast shuffling cardsstuffed up sleeves to deal on the sly,eyes shifting jungle…

She stands behind me while I struggle with the connectors. “Come on,” she says, “it’s lefty loosey, righty tighty. Don’t you…