It began in early December,Just a brief 30 days or so ago,And already I know,As a 45-year smokerWho tried to…
Live
This new year begins with dreamsShopping and love and judging a speech tournamentWith friends who live on the East CoastOne…
Slipping
Watching the Packers this afternoon, I flash on my first date in the New Year of 1978, Madison, Wisconsin. Back…
Unquieting Quiet
Quiet melodyA gentle mind daydreamingImagines pleasant lives picturedCut into silent stone definedChiseled shapes of unheard soundMolded solid that the waking…
“Sneak Attack,” Episode 9 of my latest Lt David Chan Hawai’i-based mystery series, in now available on the Kindle Vella platform.
Now You Don’t
You were some sort of sleight-of-hand magician,and I still haven’t figured outall of the tricks you pulled, a tributeto the…
Old Movie
I remember the theater, the old movies festival, the music, and you, the smell of popcorn filling the lobby, that…
Love Match
Tonight a match togetherLet the game beginOur pasts have trainedUs for this momentOf truth we’re not afraidThe length of playDepends…
A Child’s Christmas in Hawai’i
Say, 65 years ago this morningI would have been awakemuch earlier than sunrise,earlier than that time when wormsbegin to quiver…
Slowly
Why does it always have to be his way? I finally have had it. I say, “Basically, Alex, you’re a…
What Future?
We’re in the middle of our meeting, drinking coffee at Starbucks. “Hold up your right hand,” she says. I do.…
Wintering Over
I would watch the lake ice break upMonstrous blocksCompeting for space as they expandedWorking against each otherConstantly shifting positionsAt night…
Winter Too
Our love bloomed quickly A seed soaked in water and sun Our hearts tending Mighty nurture with the help of…
Winter
Go ahead near the end and try To warm yourself in solitary winter Go burn the letters, the diaries, the…
Awash
There’s tension in the rigid repetition of the waves tonightTheir rolling ashore like a ticking clockUnder the full moon spotlightingOur…
Making Believe
Earlier this year, I found out she’d passed away after a 10-year battle with Parkinson’s Disease. That’s a hell of a…
Night Swim
This morning I saw the trailer for a movie coming out shortly. I’m convinced that it will be the most…
Enclosure
There is no living with us nowWhen we’re all boxedInside like thisThe walls closing outsideAnd each of us butting headsAgainst…
Thought Time Stopped
For sure with no more counting up or downWith no key sought to wind a forward sweepOr so it seemed…
Lanning Lee 