On the Clock

I always think it’s a dream, you know, that whole today is ending now,the clock ticking me up to midnight…

The Bigger Picture

Each year of my life, from the very first timeI was conscious of believing it might be this way,I was…

Well this is easy, I think,reading the simple instructionson the small piece of paper inside the plastic bag.But it’s not…

This is the kind of weather where you don’t want to let your dog outside because you know she’ll be…

He wasn’t a mean man. The lack of emotion that everyone saw in him, was just that. He no longer…

It’s all the deep end when you take the plunge.No shallow end exists, as you well know.It’s like one of…

I’m happy to say that Episode 3 of my new Lieutenant David Chan Hawaiʻi-based crime story is now available on…

The Police, I think about them all the time these days.This morning I’m standing in Starbucks,where they’ve removed the social…

Although we didn’t recognize each other immediately, we finally realize that we are acquainted. I don’t know what it is about…

As I round the corner, I hear accordion music. There, on a bench outside of Macy’s Ala Moana, sit an…

He’d read about why they put the chicken all that long way in the back of the store. It was what…

Say 60 years ago this morning, my sister and I would have been awake much earlier than sunrise, earlier than…

He’d never been big on lines, but this one he didn’t mind. It snaked back and forth between the stanchions…

We come back day after daySearching for someone to holdWhen others walk away in loveWill we be here passing our…

Reflecting on you and the lake ice, I watched how it broke upin wintertime, huge blocks working against each otheras…

We’re in a woeful state, down to the last generation: Z.I fear it might be they’re an omega of generations…

Two months ago, a pair of Hawaiian Electric workerscame to my house to install a state-of-the-art meterwith all the bells…

This used to be a poem, but now it’s not. I tried to make it pretty, but it didn’t turn…

I’m happy to say that the 2nd episode of my new Lieutenant David Chan Hawaiʻi-based crime story is now available…

Each new door is an opening on another dawn. Yawn. I sing, “It seems to me I’ve heard that song…