Listen, Love, to the heard beyond hearing,lost ocean’s call in an empty shell,the sound of air unmoving there, captured only…
Future, Future
Today’s word is future Use it in any kind of a piece of writing and leave it as a comment…
Hawaiʻi Sonnet 81 (The Tymes, for AT)
After all the quaint loves have faded,who do not remember they have forgotten me,when we were younger in too ancient…
Up Us
I’m driving this piece of shit rental car while my baby sits in the shop getting her dents hammered out. I…
The Gardener
Today’s word is desire Use it in a sentence or two and post what you wrote in the comments below.…
Stalk
Today’s word is craving Use it in a sentence or two and leave what you write in the comments below.…
The Children
Right now we are fucked up badly. It’s goneway beyond a problem,how we’re living in a world of pretend. Rememberthat from back in…
Hawaiʻi Sonnet 80 (Ghost)
Nothing, Oh Banquo, our ghost of the martlet hall,can bring you back to reasoning in some healthful clime.Uncheerful then, you…
Oh Fer-un (for FVC)
That frugalness I witnessed in the clipping,lovingly, carefully of coupons and can labels,box tops too, your caress of good deals,…
Hawaiʻi Sonnet 79 (The Undoing)
Then so strong, sure, pointed.In the beginning determined of purpose, unfearing,eye white, peeled on the straight sight, the long narrow.No…
Hawaiʻi Sonnet 78 (Vienna sausage & a couple of grapes)
On some of those longest nights, like last night,I think I may have met the worst kind of thiefwith a…
Cool Head, Main T’ing (for SH)
I come to a gravel spewing halt in his driveway. The house is dark. I wonder if he’s come home…
Hawai‘i Sonnet 77 (For You and Me)
And then I would be like, I should say, Hey!See it, man? The sun’s setting on us,and then say, We…
Rhythm and Blues
Real problems I can handle,simple check marks on a to-do list,bam bam bam.It’s the imaginary oneshardly seeming to ever be…
Hawaiʻi Sonnet 76 (Exit Singing)
Will they sing skywise away the sanctified cellars,piled deep beneath blessed bottles, holy casks,not bound by hallowed death memorynot kept…
Folks I Meet in Longs (For LC)
It’s that time of night, the pau hana gang making purchases they should have made the last time they were…
Kapolei the Moon (for Ray Bradbury)
at the Village Centerall kids end up down hereat this yellow linea race they don’t know they’re runningmomentarily swept up…
Hawaiʻi Sonnet 75 (Enter Laughing)
I’m waiting, furtive, hoping that woman coming aroundthe corner is the one seeking me, secret agent Lee,here for a sub…
Hawai‘i Sonnet 74
We are sparring, the basement of Nu‘uanu Y.I hear the clash of bamboo shinai, a little likethe rattle of the…
Miracle
This year, for the first time in 50 years,my lychee tree bore fruit. I could not believe it.True, there were…
