— one more for Willie Nelson I remember like the hovering of birdsHow they settled on the water and we…
Saying I Love You
for Willie Nelson My silence was my worst mistakeNot saying the same, I know, must have hurtBeing unsure of what…
It’s Just Not True
Time falls out visions wash awayHope holds on making plans for meFaith keeps pieces stored in empty roomsAs I dream…
Some Change of Scenery
We should take the road homeWe should go backIt’s time, we both agree Nothing can express wholy this late summer…
Hallmark Moments
I’d been in the Midwest for many years, gradually working my way up the ladder to district manager for a…
The Weight of Words
I loaned Duke my first edition of Fitzgerald’s Collected Short Stories, but when – after what I thought was a…
Black or White
Randol explained to me one timeThe difference between black and whiteOne slims, the other does notEspecially when someone’s taking your…
In the Next
I appreciated the raise you encouraged me to ask forEuphoric like hopscotching over an imaginary lineSensing the end of some…
Let There Be Peace on Earth
Five consonants and three vowelsCombine to create 28 charactersThe Korean alphabet“Hangeul”A simplified writing system for the peopleIts ease of comprehensionPromotes…
Going, Going
We are seat mates from O’Hare to HonoluluHe lives on an island between Hawai’i and AustraliaI’ve not heard of the…
Flying My First Kite
We run together in the strong windThe two of us launching my first kiteHe’d made for meCutting and gluing the…
Death on the Nile
Is it true, my guide asks, that America views this as a third-world countryThat we consider Egypt’s development to be…
One Way of Looking
This morning while I was working in the yardI looked up and saw a mynah birdPerched on a limb of…
On the Clock
The catch is always just one slip upIt fits as an apt prescriptive descriptionI’m what I’ve become so here I…
At the Bar
I felt the slight pressure on my shoulder The kind that promises the ride of your life, Before you read…
The Swans at Wells
An elderly gentleman beams red-facedNeatly bearded and dressed in a black tuxedoHe stands in the park feeding birdsBehind the Wells…
The Bird Lady of Āliamanu
She was a lover who’d found something to love wholeheartedlyEveryone knew her as the Bird Lady of Āliamanu IntermediateThe school…
The Former Bird Lady of Queen’s Surf
My maternal grandmother often went to Queen’s SurfWhere she’d sit and feed the birds They recognized her and would flock…
The Bird Lady of Castle Memorial
She had a thing for birdsMolded out of clayWoven with yarnEmbroidered on her clothes She did that with the Aloha…
The Birds of Kuykendall Hall
There was an inspirational reason behind the design detailThose novel three stories of floor-to-ceiling glassThe grand transparent window walls of…
Lanning Lee 