So, Chris, I’ve been thinking about the story you told me yesterday. I hope das good news. Oh, of course…
It’s Not My Story
“So, me and Hector was eating at Charles Wong’s Ice Cream and Saimin Shop.” That’s Hector and I. And it’s were…
Reefer Madness
The city prosecutor, Paul Tanabe, picks up one of the germinated seedlings, a couple little leaves breaking through the soil…
Maybe a Phone Call
The phone rings. It’s a live number. I inhale and hold my breath. It’s been many years, so I can’t say for…
The Halo Effect
They call that the halo effect. What? What I was just saying. It’s the idea that if you form a positive opinion of…
Hawai’i Ties
Oh, said Mr. Souza, as he closed the bathroom door. Please do remember to lower the seat. The women who…
Plan C
When one door slams shut . . .So where’s that other door to open upon possibilities?And there’s no window to…
In the End
I make sure to toss spilled salt over my shoulderBut I never can remember if it’s supposed to be the…
A hui hou (Until we meet again)
The last time I heard Hawaiian music in WaikīkīIt was a quiet night at Blue Note before the pandemic struck…
Water Gazing
I sit watching a school of tiny blue fishZip lively in and out along the wharfImagine jumping in to join…
Life’s Miracles
There are angels among us alwaysEvery moment may be a revelationLife is a series of miracles all our daysThere are…
A Quickening
My night had passed me moving as slow painDressed all in my rose Sunday best I left up the empty…
Time’s Slow Fade
That former love’s words recalled moreIn bits and pieces like lyricsOf a song recalled less and lessHer face shimmers further…
You Become the Happiest Half Empty Glass
That’s the way love goes sometimesA real rollercoasterHighs to lows to loop the loopsThen all flattening out at the end…
A Searching of the Heart
I feel like a man whose memory functions glacier slow nowMy mind takes eons to piece together some semblance of…
So I’m Guessing Earth Day’s Kind of Like
Happy Birthday to youHappy Birthday to youHappy Birthday Dear Ear-rthHappy Birthday to you If the Earth could speakI’d ask it…
Just the Facts
She brushes his hand with a blood red nail as they both reach for their coffee cupsSits back on the…
Iron Wrinkles
As I put on this aloha shirtI notice the collar’s not been ironed rightSomething my old eyes didn’t catch In…
No Relief
Every night that it consumes youVariations hardly alter the hunt at allEven varied details wind you to the same endRandom…
Provided I wake up tomorrow
Kicking and screaming I grieveAs I attack minimum payments posted to me in BordeauWine colored run on sheets of slice…
Lanning Lee 