One day our bodies willburst into flowersturn hard as wellto bits of sandy shoreswhere children make us castlesto wash awaywe’ll…

The poems land awkwardly nowAll the more as I age and write againEverything I’ve written of beforeI write this same…

Well, this is it. I’m the last one here. They’re all gone. Even my wife. Humankind and the pandemic took…

Cindy and Jerry came to dinner last night, and it was awful. First off, Nani, my wife invited them behind…

She wanted a big-screen TV mounted on the wall opposite her bed.  In between munching bonbons and polishing her nails, she’d…

We’d all grown up together from small-kid time, most from age three or four.  So far we’d survived all kinds of…

The screen message was “No Bluetooth Device Detected.” Jim patted the pants pocket where he kept his phone. Nothing. He…

The electricity bill popped into his inbox just as he was paying the annual termite protection bill, which was $469.26.…

He was tallish, maybe 6’1’, and a good athlete.  He played both basketball and volleyball in high school.  He was what we…

You in your dark, dark Seoul, another Magic Island in my future,that’s where it will be, my last dip in…

Easier than brain science or rocket surgery, after all,for a weak-minded me to foolishly believe anything,false-crack me constantly out of…

All I need’s a napkin to dry my face, por favor.I’m speaking the wrong language in old Seoul, ne?But maybe one of…

Time multiplies the images of all those red queens with one black king.I hear the sharpening of knives, that steel…

In the dark, what won’t I believe that isn’t true?That somewhere there’s some mumbling equivocator,a bawdy bard, keeper of the…

And the lights go off; it’s Korea after all.No power guarantee, even in Seoul – like Hawai‘i folks should talk.All…

Buzz, buzz, buzz, bouncing off the walls and down the hallto the flaming kitchen where you’ll easily be ignored.The table…

“This has become quite the screed,” he thought, looking over his day’s work,hard as the words that won’t hold back…