To fall in love with the first manIn your young life, you meetProtected from the world, you wereAbandoned on a…
That Restless Feeling
The wind moans all night through, groans soLove made for hours with surrounding treesSwaying together far past the point of…
3: Into the Fire
Like all of the other gawkers, Chan sat on the low stone wall across Pi‘ikoi watching the Pacific Insurance building…
2: The News
It felt like an earthquake had hit. “David, David, wake up.” Chan opened his eyes. “What is it? What happened?”…
1: Coincidence
I come to feeling like someone’s split my head open, like a coconut, with a dull machete. The woman bending…
Football Season
The biggest bag of popcorn availableFathomless fancy for itCollege football season has begunPass, run, and kick into my heartPopcorn all…
The Thing That Wouldn’t Leave
In graduate school, my social life consists almost exclusively of visits to my two best friends, Mel and his wife,…
“My Father,” Episode 17 of my 5th Lt. David Chan Hawai’i-based mystery, is now available on the Amazon Vella platform.
Identity
Life split all about with many inklingsZig a beloved bright youth onwardYears removed sausage segmentsSliced away blade cuts one by…
All I Need
A tableau of still spaceFloat outside of hoursI pet my dog and my catTherapeutic virtuesThe hushed three of usSoothing purring…
Enter Roland
It’s strange what making an entrance demandsWhen you can’t quite fit like a cookie cutBend at angles too odd for…
“Waking Up,” Episode 16 of my 5th Lt. David Chan Hawai’i-based mystery, is now available on the Kindle Vella platform
Memory Word
I wait a long timeBut it’s only quietFor a last wordA stone carvingKneeling silenceRust in the rainNo heart creaks joyThe…
An Old Story
The Ring doorbell, with its announcement that “someone is at the door,” always sets Doris off. She’s a good watchdog. I’m very…
A Ghost Story
Those faraway eyesThe child comes to meSadness in this dreamThat weighs down my chestAll the next day and beyondHard breathing…
Chapter 26: Mysteries Solved
It seemed like a year since we’d been able to relax when we met at the Blue Light. The four of…
Do Not Try To Pet Bears
Australia, how would you know this?Barren of bears as AntarcticaAnd all your penguins silent on the subject No bear has ever…
About Time
No cajoling or encouraging necessarySilentSome say sinisterPlaying peep at meOld-time kids’ cardboard periscopeI don’t have to spyTo know you’re thereIf…
Chapter 25: You Only Live Once
Not since the first time he’d entered the Daoist monastery did Chan wonder about surrendering his service revolver. But he did…
Chapter 24: What I’ve Become
Masks. My son disappeared on Halloween. I’d thought I’d lost him. But a month later he was rescued off a tiny atoll up…
Lanning Lee 