In a moment in my golden years I wonder if I’m an onion, each year representing another layer of love…
Next Time Hana
They say that Maui nō ka ‘oi, and I, once upon a time, agreed, when we didn’t have to fight…
If it wasn’t for bad luck
Destiny, a word redolent with possibility,is an outer world, one beyond usbut around us.As we live our lives we bump…
Grab Hold and Come On In
A fairy tale convict, restrained in her tower cell, scratching those long, thin lines, doleful exercise, the shaky ones that…
Three, Two, One
He jumps in his car and drives,from the Oakland docks, remember?and drives fastO, Death, Ralph Stanley,running round on a loop,…
Get Quiet
I watch as the party rages on across the way. It’s now officially after midnight, and no one’s phoned the…
The Authors’ Voices
Like dog whistles we can’t be heard. If you could hear all of us, together, you’d never let us into…
Missing Pages
I’m stapling together revised 5-year projections,our support staff still working remotely.I love this stapler, well worth the money,handling more than…
Hunting for a Subject
I was sitting at the Tahitian Lānai piano barwith the actual Surgeon General of the United States,on vacation here in…
Vinyl’s Final
Vinyl was as good as dead, but it’s making a comeback.Like Lazarus, LPs have risen from the grave.The last time…
The Stuff of Dreams
The first time I traveled there, a lengthy journeyall the way from Hawai‘i, I was alreadyan old man, had long…
The Taking of Medicine
Dave’s here from Wisconsin, and we’re swimming at Ala Moana Beach,despite the posted bright orange jellyfish warning signs.I’ve assured him…
Old Enough to Deal
I liked to gamble back then,had to have the perfect dealer,searched hard for someone special. With her I had a…
This six-foot wide divide
So we sit “beside” each other. We’re noteven supposed to be touching now I know.Oh, how that’s so not beside…
Kū‘auhau (Genealogy)
Once upon a time there was a little girl from Chicago, City of the Big Shoulders, And there was a…
The Lurch (Part Three)
The day— it was night the last time he knew – had gone well. The same routine since he’d retired. …
The Lurch (Part Two)
He’d heard that phrase all his life, but never thought much about what it might mean. Maybe he might’ve been…
The Lurch
When he came to, he was in the dark. Calling out and receiving no response, he figured he was there…
Breakfast After a Bad One
Old lovers are ghosts, pass the pancakes,pass the syrup, blueberry, not maple, please,the way they shift themselves into our consciousness,when…
Kauaʻi, Boys, Is nō ka ʻoi
EXTERIOR. ON THE BEACH AT KEKAHA, KAUAʻI, HAWAIʻI EVENING Four friends, BEANPOLE, BROWNIE, GOODIE, and PEANUT sit on the sand…
