I see something sullen, a sort of smoldering angerin the face of the father. I understand he has losthis son…
Hard To Relate
I saw them on the sidewalk up ahead, a tall Haole guy, very fit, maybe six-feet two, in a tank-top…
Social Interaction
Returning, your tongue must be hung on a coat hook, your language each evening left skewered at the door, as…
Coming to the Center
We find ourselves entering a corridor of language, she from the eastern door, and I from the west. We take steps,…
Passersby
From who has been to who will be here?Questions to answer like a color commentator.Opportunities I choose to select people,picture…
Episode #9 of my third Lt. David Chan Hawai’i-based crime story is now available on the Kindle Vella Platform
The title of this episode is “Hiding and Dying.”
Switchblade
I go downtown more often these days. Nostalgia. Chinatown was a regular haunt for me during small kid time. My…
The Bigger Person
The dream was so horribly vivid that I thought I was awake and watching the news on TV. A friend…
My World
Eventually now, I see the whole wide world we knew,if we live long enough – I’m finding it’s so for…
What I’ve Unlearned
It was up there somewhere, that ideal place where the dead waited for me.I learned about afterlife and angels long…
Episode #8 of my third Lt. David Chan Hawai’i-based crime story is now available on the Kindle Vella platform
The Basement
The trip down is always tricky in the dark. Have you ever had something to do, some minor task, that you…
The Flip Side
The music stopped, but we kept dancing. We could hear the melody going on, even though the musicians were packing up.…
Alone Time
“Gramma, come on. Next stop Zippy’s.” Sometimes I can’t believe I’m still alive to hear this. Every year, the same…
Politics over Friendship
Will we find that it’s fine, eventually, all by itself,that it’ll blow over with the passage of time, I wondered.Life’s…
Psst
You know that’s a word, right?It’s one of those onomatopoeia types.Those that come from a sound.Like when you’re trying to…
Real Good Poems
How hard should a reader have to work to get something out of a poem?Would digging a hole to China…
A Funny Bone Tickled Razor Teeth
The sea rises and falls helpless under the moon waves roll on their cover – in sunlight birds dove and…
Flight
It’s funny, I thought – on the non-stop to New York,staring out at the little pockets of light spread againstthe…
Episode #7 of my third Lt. David Chan Hawai’i-based crime story is now available on the Kindle Vella platform
The 7th episode of my third Lt. David Chan Hawai’i-based crime story is now available on the Kindle Vella platform: https://t.co/JpDGhZjcGR
