Daylight Night

Daylight struggled to break through all morningInto the afternoon the clouds hold onStubbornly extending their unwelcome stayRaining down on us…

Gone

I heard about it by word of mouth, you knowThe way gossip starts small as within a familyThen blows outward…

It consumes all of me is a dreamSinging red, yellow, and orangeAutumn’s dying days dance all downIn Korea choir the…

Fade in place awayRain turn to mist in warm touchPhoto glowing giftsNo buried king’s goldMore treasured than you burningA face…

He’ll always go home in that fitting brown aloha shirtFaded Reyn’s from years of favorite wear and washThe cycle repeated…

Whenever I saw the ad, I’d wonder what would stay thereAdultery, drugs, murder – what threshold needed to be metHow…

I have a friend who told me she is ‘traveled out’I’ve not reached that point, although there’s only one place,…

In a cave here, on a mountaintop thereKorea lives in me by bits and piecesBite-sized chunks I can drink inMelts…

Losing pages dog-eared as my life like chapter timesRead my path like a book left fading on a pale benchWhen…

The sounds of over there is ‘them’ and here is ‘us’Ghosts hear as if they were the honoring of some…

In eyes I see here, my ancestors’ gaze cast by manyThere’s a hardness of a kind I can’t quite identifyAnd…

And he says, “In this line, what does ‘it’ refer to?” I stare at the line then close my eyes…

When I’m here, I love the taste and smell of garlic more than usualWill chew it even in the morning,…

Before breakfast, I cross the street outside my hotelTo visit the Jogyesa Buddhist Temple People of all ages and economic…

It’s good to be back in KoreaA third time as charming as the firstLet the magic beginIn the fatherland I’m…

Here’s to the broom, the mop, and the spongesThe cloths, the sprays, and the toilet bowl brushesTools of the exercise…

So true, how you always seem to chooseThe slowest register line in the grocery store(It even applies now to self-checkout…

Reached that crossroads where you have to stop and wonderWhat mightn’t be a turning point or which may indeedDebating about…

Ultimate Dave — he gave himself that name — is bragging again. “I’m the king of ultimate frisbee,” he proclaims,…

The first time I came home for a Christmas breakHaving endured a frigid Midwest fall semesterThe coldest on record, my…