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…
I’m happy to say that “Blood Brothers,” Episode 5 of my latest Lt. David Chan Hawai’i-based mystery, is now available on the Amazon Vella platform.
Dream Doctor
It was the kind of dream that wakes you up. It was the kind that won’t let you go back to…
Ghosts
That old child watches youSees you at each instant of your lifeObserves what you becomeWhat time does to youLaughs some…
Safari
Even though a paler woman sitting sunning outside said they wereSaid so to the other two paler woman, all natives tooBut…
A Good Life
I met a local woman yesterdaywho had moved with her husbandfrom Hawai‘i to Californiato find a better life. Her husband…
Mentors
He always wore mirrored sunglasses, the kind the “Boss” with the rifle does in Cool Hand Luke. We thought maybe he…
Just Before Dawn
They came this morning. It was a gray day, the sun hidden by dense clouds. It’s a scene right out of…
Lanning Lee 