Someone’s stumbling on the prayerEveryone tripping on the wayThey’d sew me a new coatWhere the treadle machine’s storedHoping we don’t…
Softening Music
Grampa sits on the porch rockingHums songs from back in the day when he sang themFull-throated, lung-topped and smiling breathlesslyFeeling…
“Doing Swimmingly,” Chapter 9 of my second memoir, is now available on the Kindle Vella platform.
Reflections
Amazing how so much dust and grimecoat the surface of a wall mirror.Lying on the floor, I could easily see,but…
Missed Miles
Travel catch-upFrance friesChina frailsIreland fleetsNorway wavers Korea warnsAntarctica whelms Yesterdays of anytimeDesire returnedAche in the plane seatFatigue flying time zonesDay after…
All Those Miles
Taking hits between rehearsing scenes of Oliver!Smoking all the time during dances and concertsDriving home smashed Saturday nights from Wai‘alae Drive-InDrunk…
Never at All
In my dream, just before the music plays – I’ve seen this so often over 60 years – learned all…
Quid Pro Quo
The blackbirds are too many nowand fierce today. Even thoughI hurried to hang the laundry on the linebefore the sun…
A Guppy’s Dream
My pond’s overrun by guppies again, and at perhaps 2000 gallons, it’s not a small one. . . . a…
Poeming
When I see a poem coming down to around, say, 24 lines,I begin to consider whether I’ll compose it as…
A Little Death
For cutting and weeding there’s nothing I like morethan my small sickle, its 3-inch serrated bladeeasy to maneuver speedily with…
From Then To
I remember the dawn’s first early light,silhouettes of darkened heads bob love,no secret anymore, amore in paradise,no strangers to me…
Chapter 8 of my second memoir is now available on the Kindle Vella platform
A Hallmark Moment
My friend calls to tell me a co-worker,rushed to Queen’s Hospital the night before,had undergone an emergency quadruple-bypass. The others…
Gray Dog (Loving Pets)
The dependance uponwhat a great deal her life lenta small gray dogthere a statue nowstanding over her asheshonoring herafter Greyfriars…
Being Bold
My neighbor kid’s been helping me tie up some dead branches. Finished, I’m drinking a beer, he a passion-orange juice…
A Haunting High
For me it was like picking up a can of teargas,then huffing it – remembering paint and glue and you.Not…
Never Give a Inch
After One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest came out as a movie, Jim was madder than a wet poultry dentist.…
I Am, I Said
People can be such drive-by critics, those looking for value.But maybe I prefer that, not being seen, comparedto rubbernecking quick-stoppers…
Speak with the Dead
I quit watching the clock some time ago. Factssuch as my age, or what day or month or yearit is often escape…
Lanning Lee 