Promontory

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

Mad Money

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

Right or Left Behind Me

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

Hawaiʻi Sonnet 82 ( Slip Away)

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…

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…

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…