I find these bodies often in the yardRaking, I’ll come across a nestAnd lying nearby, a baby, featherlessBrought down by…
Last Flight
Birds have that gift of flightTheir lives so simple seemingEating and sleepingBusy nest buildersTrue, they have predatorsFrom which we couldn’t…
A Fan with a Plan
There are 30 minutes to go before the start of the game. Not many fans of either team are seated…
End of Session
None of our tough questions get answeredHard heads and tight lips and red facesHiding truths under armor cracks of brief…
The Friendly Stranger in the 1974 Black Mercury Marquis
When he stepped out of his carI stood still in Mānoa Shopping CenterI thought he was Tom SelleckBut on second…
Litterbug
As he headed down McCarthy Mall to the faculty union meeting in Kuykendall Auditorium, Dr. Terry Hong saw a boy…
A Smile
Where it came from, I had no way of knowing. Perhaps it crawled up from the stream below my house.…
Daily Mantra
All the weeds in my yard will disappearNo tree branches or leaves will ever fallThere will never be a line…
Keep On Keeping On
In the way you sayIn the shape and in the formIn no uncertain termsEven if it falls exactly as you…
All Life’s Noise
Listening to nothing in the cool morningI smile as Buddha would if I only wereAnd blow a kiss that molds…
Off Script
Some song about what goes on under the coversI’ve never experienced quite the same frantic anticsAs seen on TV or…
Write Like H E Double Hockey Sticks
If you want to tell today’s plain factYou’d best record it right awayBefore it’s blinded and bewildered by timeTurns into…
The Odds
It’s been a year now since Kenneth stopped in to pay what he owed me. Walking in after three tentative knocks, he produced…
And you get baloney from how?
Bologna’s a city known for sausageThat disavows any knowledgeOf what goes on down those sketchyDark streets where meat and pavement…
The Lessoning of You Knew Who
So little of you, you now knowing downLife teaching you smaller bits of selfA growing descentCertainty slides into mysteryNot doubt,…
Wind and Reed
A new moon slipping overWhite plate and crystalShadowed beneath where sustenanceIs no longer cravedSlipping and slipped beyond supperTongues still tasting…
The Man Who Mourned Twice (Part Two)
On the ride home, Kalo lay limp across his lap, exhausted by the long scare due to the first two…
The Man Who Mourned Twice (Part One)
When he had to put Kalo to sleep, he cried all the way to the vet. She’d been his sole…
Do Them Part
Someone wake him before he dreams of her againHe sees them stroll the shore with pant leg cuffs rolled upTo…
Hunger
I go to your funeral to witness who else is still aliveYou go because Someone may say something about you…
Lanning Lee 