Thirty Years

Thirty Years Tiananmen Square 2009On the day of the twentieth anniversaryI weave my way through crowdsOf Chinese soldiers sharply uniformedArmed,…

Ghost

Rain drizzled outside the window. How much? It’s $200. He looked back at her. Do you want it all now? She shook her head.…

selective amnesia

selective amnesia I mean I keep remembering youbut I forget all kinds of things all the timelike my site passwordsor…

blackbird

blackbird very soon they will comeslowly gathering, so resentingtheir broken wings coming to betheir sunken eyes coming to seeencroachment. Ahthey…

Sketching

Alone now on a kind of raft, this piece perhapsof a former raft that drifted by while I sat drawing,I…

What Are the Chances?

We have come to Galway’s Inismór, largest of the Aran Isles. At this moment, we are at the top of…

Hawaiʻi Sonnet 61

awake with that sweat and the suedesmell of you, my eyes wide as I realizeI should have asked, if I…

Good Reader

Maile has become a voracious reader, and her appetite for books keeps growing. We’ve picked through the library offerings so…

the price of aloha

Here’s my draft for today, Tuesday 06.11.19. the price of aloha there is the green flash hope of them sitting…

Hawaiʻi Sonnet 60

Here’s my draft for today, Monday 06.10.19. Hawaiʻi Sonnet 60 He rarely rested, swam hard all his lifemostly under water,…

The Next Thing You Know

Here’s my draft for today, Sunday 06.09.19. The Next Thing You Know You know, every second we’re alive, we learna…

One Way of Looking

Here’s my draft for today, Saturday 06.08.19. One Way of Looking I didn’t think I had anything to do todaybut…

A Stranger at the Bar

Here’s my draft for today, Aloha Friday, 06.07.19. A Stranger at the Bar I thought the seeming knowing howto touch…

Or maybe only silence

Here’s my draft for today, Thursday 06.06.19, the 75th Anniversary of D-Day. Or maybe only silence If they spoke, if…

Bar Hoping

Here’s my draft for today, Happy Wednesday 06.05.19. Bar Hoping In the long mirror, first, I looked at herthen at…

Blog Aloha (for DD)

Blog Aloha Aloha to all of you out there in blogland. I have a blogging friend named David Davis who…

Not finding them (for WW)

Here’s my draft for today, Happy Monday, 06.03.19. Not finding them (for WW) I do see the full moon strides…

Finding My Mom’s Choir Robe

Here’s my draft for today, Sunday 06.02.19. Finding My Mom’s Choir Gown They sang, Sunday chorus, practiced perfect pitchalways in…

Hoʻomaikaʻi

Here’s my draft for today, Saturday 06.01.19. Hoʻomaikaʻi Wow, it’s amazing what you might stumble across on the internet quite…