My visitor doesn’t knock on the door in the bright sunshine of midday.  I’ve never actually seen him or met him…

Each time I fall off the ladderit’s my life almost downso I try to be carefulwhen you climbdo you not…

It’s getting colder out hereIs why you never buyA cheap winter coatNot in WisconsinWhen you have to waitOutside the zooIn…

Carnival time, Magic Island, 50th-StateFair 1967, the year of hard words, attackingcandy, for the dead enough to suck on, those…

He’s carrying what looks like at least a gallon bottle.  I see the label.  Crown Royal. “I brought you a nice bottle,”…

I spotted a man who had once loveddogs, loved lighting up the hibachi,barbecuing burgers and steaks, who oncechallenged his son,…

My dream, sellingall my books to pay rentin Wisconsin, after the M.A.,how I bought mostof the same againstudying for the…

“All the old ones closing down,” Grandpa says, reading paper, talking about Branches Restaurant down Mōiʻiliʻili. “Ah,”I tell um, “I…

My neighbor across the fence says,“They just keep adding onto it,day after day, week after week, month after month.It never…

I’ve been many placesfrom Antarctica to the top of Norwaybut I always tell folks who askafter having sung the praises of…

contrasttoo easy a clichéapples and orangesboth fruitshave seedsgrow on treesunlike moneyhe sayshanding over my weekly breadbreathing hard for the work…

I’ve just come from listening to Robert Cazimero do a show at the Blue Note nightclub. I’m sitting at the…

The love of where you findthat it you findthat ityou least expect I’ve heard of that soar at the finding…

I saw a long line of vehicleson Vineyard Boulevard yesterdaymaybe 25 cars, including a black hearseall of them with their…

Leināʻala floats, a dream visionher smile indelible, genuine, always so gracious gliding, swaying, her hands are birds in flightelegance in their…

We’re sitting at Sandy’s table in Leicesterwith Karen, we’re all together for the first timeone of the happiest occasions of…

That night I tried to read the Economics text with the same intensity I read the material for my English…

I didn’t think of myself as a stalker, but I can see now that my behavior came close.  I walked right…

Draft for Aloha Friday 07.12.19  False Wiliwili — Part Two I was raised a good Lutheran, so there are two…

Anna is a second semester freshman.  I’m entering my final semester as a senior, chomping at the bit, eager to get…